The turn of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of two distinct philosophical schools in Europe: analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual hostility. What is often left out of this history, however, is the relationship between the two European schools and a third significant philosophical event: the birth and development of pragmatism, the indigenous philosophical movement of the United States. Through a careful analysis of seminal figures and central texts, this book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between these three revolutionary philosophical traditions. The essays in this volume aim to show the central role that pragmatism played in the development of philosophical thought at the turn of the twentieth century, widen our understanding of a seminal point in the history of philosophy, and shed light on the ways in which these three schools of thought continue to shape the theoretical agenda of contemporary philosophy.
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Mingled Story of Three
Revolutions
Maria Baghramian and Sarin Marchetti
Part I: Early Encounters
1. Husserl and Wittgenstein: Two Very Different but Potentially Complementary
Readings of William James
Richard Cobb-Stevens
2. How to Marry Phenomenology and Pragmatism: Schelers Proposal
Kevin Mulligan
3. Pragmatic and Analytic Evasions of Idealism: James and Wittgenstein on
Conduct and Practice
Colin Koopman
4. Other Minds and God: Russell and Stout on James and Schiller
Tim Button
5. Russell, Pragmatism, and the Priority of Use Over Meaning
James Levine
6. Peirce and Ramsey on Truths and Norms
Cheryl Misak
7. Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: A Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107 (1930)
Anna Boncompagni
Part II: Later Encounters
8. The Pragmatic Origins of Ethical Expressivism: Stevenson, Dewey, and the
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
John Capps
9. The Analytic Pragmatist Conception of the A Priori: C. I. Lewis and
Wilfrid Sellars
James OShea
10. In Defense of Wishful Thinking: James, Quine, Emotions, and the Web of
Belief
Alexander Klein
11. Logical Empiricism Between Pragmatism and Neopragmatism
Sami Pihlström
12. Phenomenology and Pragmatism: Two Interactions. From Horizontal
Intentionality to Practical Coping
Dermot Moran
Maria Baghramian is Professor of American Philosophy at University College Dublin and current Head of School of Philosophy. She was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and was Fulbright Scholar in Harvard in 2014. Her research and publications, supported by the Irish Research Council, focus on Contemporary American Philosophy and the topics of relativism and disagreement.
Sarin Marchetti is Assistant Professor at Sapienza Universitą di Roma, where he teaches Moral Theories. He has written on ethics, metaphilosophy, Pragmatism, and the History of Analytic Philosophy. He is the author of Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James (2015) and co-editor of Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity (with G. Marchetti, 2016).
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