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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction: Classical American Philosophy | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Introduction: "Emerson," a Memorial Address | |
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| The American Scholar | |
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| Self-Reliance | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Classical American Philosophy | |
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| Charles Sanders Peirce | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Consequences of Four Incapacities | |
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| The Fixation of Belief | |
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| How to Make Our Ideas Clear | |
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| The Doctrine of Necessity Examined | |
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| The Categories and the Study of Signs | |
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| What Pragmatism Is | |
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| Issues of Pragmaticism | |
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| A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| William James | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Types of Philosophic Thinking | |
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| The Stream of Thought | |
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| A World of Pure Experience | |
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| What Pragmatism Means | |
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| The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life | |
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| The Dilemma of Determinism | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Josiah Royce | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Temporal and the Eternal | |
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| The Body and the Members | |
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| The Will to Interpret | |
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| Loyalty to Loyalty, Truth, and Reality | |
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| Loyalty and Religion | |
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| Provincialism | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| George Santayana | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy | |
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| Some Meanings of the Word "Is" | |
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| Scepticism | |
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| Essence | |
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| Substance | |
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| Teleology and Psyche | |
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| Hypostatic Ethics | |
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| The Implied Being of Truth | |
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| The Nature of Spirit | |
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| Liberation | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| John Dewey | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy | |
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| The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism | |
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| Experience and Philosophic Method | |
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| Existence as Preearious and Stable | |
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| Nature, Communication and Meaning | |
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| The Pattern of Inquiry | |
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| Education as Growth | |
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| The Lost Individual | |
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| Search for The Great Community | |
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| The Live Creature and Aesthetic Experience | |
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| Faith and Its Object | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| George Herbert Mead | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol | |
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| Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol | |
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| Meaning | |
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| The Nature of Reflective Intelligence | |
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| The Nature of Scientific Knowledge | |
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| Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other | |
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| The "I" and the "Me" | |
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| The Philosophical Basis of Ethics | |
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| Realism, Pragmatism, and Science | |
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| The Present as the Locus of Reality | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Contexts | |
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| Feminism and the Writings of American Women | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Jane Addams: Charitable Effort | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| American Idealism and Personalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Borden Parker Bowne: The Failure of Impersonalism | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| African-American Philosophy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Alain Locke: The Ethics of Culture | |
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| Alain Locke: Values and Imperatives | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| American Naturalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| John Herman Randall, Jr.: Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |