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Visit the Cybrarian John Shook Pragmatism is a movement in American philosophy which began in the 1870s with the Metaphysical Club . Read about the history of pragmatism and get introductions to pragmatism and pragmatists . cybrary halls Cybrary Home Research Center Pragmatism Genealogy Centers and Societies Find Pragmatists pragmatists classical recent Charles Peirce William James F.C.S. Schiller John Dewey George Mead Jane Addams James Tufts Edward Ames Alain Locke Charles Morris C. I. Lewis W. V. Quine Sidney Hook Hilary Putnam Richard Rorty Nicholas Rescher Larry Laudan Joseph Margolis Paul Kurtz Mark Johnson Susan Haack Cornel West organizations Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Institute for American Thought Charles S. Peirce Society Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism William James Society William James Cybrary John Dewey Society Center for Dewey Studies The Mead Project Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana more organizations... Frederick L. Will All his books and related materials about his pragmatic realism have been posted by Kenneth Westphal here: http://illinois.academia.edu/FrederickLWill American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought The American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought , located near Carbondale, Illinois, fosters the study of philosophical and cultural thought in America by collecting and archiving literary and educational resources, providing access to those resources to scholarly researchers, and disseminating education about American philosophical and cultural thought. AIPCT maintains an organized archival library, consisting of approximately 35,000 donated books and collections of papers, and also purchased items using monetary donations. AIPCT encourages the use of these research materials by permitting scholars to access them at the Institute, located near Carbondale, Illinois. AIPCT will also foster other kinds of scholarly activities, such as workshops, website information, online conferencing, and academic publishing, relating to its educational mission. Contemporary Pragmatism Book Reviews Recent books are available for reviewing. Book reviews are typically 1,000 to 1,500 words in length, and longer reviews for volumes of collected chapters are welcome. To receive a book review assignment, contact jrshook@buffalo.edu to obtain the style guidelines. Visit the journal’s homepage at Brill: www.brill.com/products/journal/contemporary-pragmatism EVENTS See the Peirce Society calendar and the SAAP calendar . CALL FOR PAPERS Summer Seminar on the Future of Philosophical Practice: University of North Carolina at Asheville Friday July 14, 2017 to Sunday July 16, 2017 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: Monday May 15, 2017 We invite abstract submissions (600 words) to read a 30-minute paper on the Main Program. The local hosts are Brian E. Butler and Grace Campbell. They are collecting the 600-word abstracts for committee consideration. Please submit your proposals to his address (bbutler@unca.edu). He can also answer questions about local accommodations. Theme: This summer seminar brings together a "continental congress" of philosophers, and other related stakeholders, to discuss the future of philosophical practice (within and beyond the academy). We are interested in any paper proposal that engages with our theme, broadly construed. For example: Genealogies of the problems facing professional philosophy Philosophy beyond the traditional philosophy department The economics of practicing philosophy (e.g. philosophical coaching, and other models) The role of public philosophy in an uncertain age Intersectional, decolonized, and other alternatives to mainstream philosophy Reading, Teaching, Practice: Philosophical Curriculum in the Twenty First Century In addition to our regular conference schedule, other activities are planned such as: A Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) panel. SOPHIA will host a panel intended to introduce people to what we do. SOPHIA’s mission is to build communities of philosophical conversation, locally, nationally, and online. We will invite key local community members to come talk about "Ethics at the End of Life." We will begin our discussion with a short reading: "It’s Over Debbie," on the basis of which we will all be on the same page. For more information about SOPHIA and our panel, visit PhilosophersInAmerica.com, or email Executive Director Eric Thomas Weber at etweber@gmail.com . A Philosophy Pilot Program Working Group: a working group, led by Leonard Waks and Eli Kramer, meeting throughout the weekend, to plan the foundations for a new pilot philosophy program. The goal is to create a program that can address the structural, fiscal, and economic problems facing the current professional model of doing philosophy. The working group will create a steering committee to continue after the meeting. The Philosophy Pilot Program Workshop will start with an evening introductory meeting on Thursday July 13, 2017. If you are interested in participating in the working group contact Eli Kramer at Eliornerkramer@gmail.com. Further details on the working-group schedule will be provided in May/June. The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought (AIPCT) (www.americanphilosophy.net) will host an informational and discussion panel about the future of cultural thought, as a whole, led by Randall Auxier of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. editorial The Eclipse of pragmatism? There has been much talk of pragmatism’s "eclipse" during analytic philosophy’s greatest dominance from 1950 to 1990. The myth must be corrected: pragmatism was never eclipsed. While pragmatism was a prominent competitor with rival neo-idealisms and new realisms during the first two decades of the 20th century, pragmatism had few representatives across the top twenty philosophy departments. Already quite marginalized in the 1920s and 1930s, the handful of pragmatist professors such as Dewey at Columbia and Mead at Chicago encouraged many of their students to go into psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, education, and economics. Many of the best new minds favorable towards pragmatism strongly influenced the social sciences during the 1940s - 1980s. In philosophy departments, pragmatism remained marginalized. However, Harvard and Columbia were still fairly pragmatic and carried on the debate. C.I. Lewis, Morton White, and W.V. Quine at Harvard, along with Ernest Nagel, Signey Morgenbesser, and Isaac Levi at Columbia, each pursued some pragmatist themes. Many of their students have in turn defended selected pragmatist views, much diluted and transformed, but still consistent with pragmatic naturalism (eg. views seen in Putnam, Davidson, Dennett, Churchland, etc). Supplemented by the efforts of renegade analytic philosophers such as Richard Rorty, pragmatism remained marginalized, yet very potent and defended by a few major figures at prominent philosophy departments. Visit The Genealogy Center for details. When philosophy became more interdisciplinary in the 1990s, its encounters with linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, semiotics, etc., brought it back into contact with flourishing pragmatist views. In summary, pragmatism has been a small but potent philosophy before and after WW II. Its contemporary vitality is enhanced by philosophy’s re-engagement with the social and cognitive sciences. J.S. Where do Pragmatists Come From? Nearly 300 scholars are included in the Cybrary’s lists of philosophy professors whose research and teaching interests include pragmatism. Where did they come from? Which doctoral programs turn out graduates who learned about pragmatism and maintained that interest in their careers? The won’t rate PhD programs for quality or job placement, but these numbers let you draw your own conclusions. Note that most of these programs have turned out pragmatists for generations....