American Philosophy

Fall 2015

Professor: P.D. Magnus

• Syllabus [PDF]

Course readings

• Theodore Parker (1907). `Transcendentalism' from The Works of Theodore Parker: The World of Matter and the Spirit of Man. American Unitarian Association. 1-38.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). `Self-Reliance.'
• -- -- (1841). `The Over-Soul.'
• Charles Sanders Peirce (1868). `Some Consequences of Four Incapacities Claimed For Man.' Electronic edition.
• -- -- (1877). `The Fixation of Belief.' Electronic edition.
• -- -- (1878). `How to Make Our Ideas Clear.' Electronic edition.
• William K. Clifford (1877). `The ethics of belief.'
• William James (1896). `The Will to Believe' in Essays in Popular Philosophy. London: Longman, Green and Co, 1927. 1-31.
• Arthur O. Lovejoy (1908). `The Thirteen Pragmatisms.' The Journal of Philosophy [Psychology and Scientific Methods] Jan 2 v5(1), 5-12; Jan 16 v5(2), 29-39.
• John Dewey (1916). `What pragmatism means by practical' in Essays in experimental logic. New York: Dover. 303-329.
• -- -- (1916). `An added note as to the ``practical'' ' in emph{ibid}. 330-334.
• William Pepperell Montague (1937). `The Story of American Realism' in Philosophy vol 12, no 46. 140-161.
• Clarence Irving Lewis ([1930] 1970). `Pragmatism and current thought' in Collected Papers of Clarence Irving Lewis. Stanford University Press. 78-86.
• -- -- ([1926] 1970). `The pragmatic element in knowledge' in ibid. 240-257.
• Willard Van Orman Quine (1953). `Two dogmas of empiricism' in From a logical point of view. Harvard University Press. 20-46.