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Introduction | |
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Speculative Thought in America, 1720-1868 | |
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Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards | |
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Philosophy and Politics | |
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Theological Dispute | |
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From Joseph Bellamy, True Religion Delineated (1750) to Nathaniel William Taylor, Moral Government of God (1858) | |
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Collegiate Philosophy | |
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From John Witherspoon, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (1800) to Noah Porter, The Human Intellect (1868) | |
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Innovative Amateurs | |
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From James Marsh's Edition of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829) to the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1867) | |
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The Age of Pragmatism, 1859-1934 | |
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The Shape of Revolution | |
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The Impact in America of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859), J. S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865), and German higher criticism | |
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The Consensus on Idealism, 1870-1900 | |
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Pragmatism in Cambridge | |
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From Charles Peirce 'On a New List of Categories' (1867) to Morris Cohen (ed.), Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays by the Late Charles S. Peirce, the Founder of Pragmatism (1923) | |
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Pragmatism at Harvard | |
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From William James, 'Spencer's Definition of Mind' (1878) to Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity (1913) | |
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Instrumentalism in Chicago and New York | |
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From John Dewey (ed.), Studies in Logical Theory (1903) to John Dewey, A Common Faith (1934) | |
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Professional Philosophy, 1912-2000 | |
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Professional Realism | |
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From The New Realism (1912) to Wilfrid Sellars, 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' (1956) | |
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Europe's Impact on the United States | |
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From Rudolph Carnap, Logische Aufbau der Welt (1928) to Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964) | |
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Harvard and Oxford | |
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From Nelson Goodman, 'The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals' (1946) to W. V. O. Quine, 'Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World' (1975) | |
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The Tribulations of Professional Philosophy | |
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From Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (1999) | |
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Conclusion | |
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Methods, Sources, Notes | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Index | |