Introduction : pragmatism, retrospective, and prospective / Joseph Margolis -- Part I: Major figures -- Charles Sanders Peirce / Vincent M. Colapietro -- William James / Ellen Kappy Suckiel -- F. C. S. Schiller and European pragmatism / John R. Shook -- John Dewey / Philip W. Jackson -- George H. Mead / Gary A. Cook -- Jane Addams / Marilyn Fischer -- Alain L. Locke / Leonard Harris -- C. I. Lewis / Murray G. Murphey -- W. V. Quine / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. -- Hilary Putnam / Harvey J. Cormier -- Juجergen Habermas / Joseph M. Heath -- Richard Rorty / Kai Nielsen -- Part II: Transforming philosophy -- Not cynicism, but synechism : lessons from classical pragmatism / Susan Haack -- Peirce and cartesian rationalism / Douglas R. Anderson -- James, empiricism, and absolute idealism / Timothy L. S. Sprigge -- Hegel and realism / Kenneth R. Westphal -- Dewey, dualism, and naturalism / Thomas M. Alexander -- Expressivism and Mead's social self / Mitchell Aboulafia -- Marxism and critical theory / Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. -- Philosophical hermeneutics / David Vessey -- Language, mind, and naturalism in analytic philosophy / Bjأrn T. Ramberg -- Feminism / Shannon W. Sullivan -- Pluralism, relativism, and historicism / Joseph Margolis -- Experience as freedom / John J. McDermott -- Part III: Culture and nature -- Pragmatism as anti-authoritarianism / Richard Rorty -- Intelligence and ethics / Hilary Putnam -- Democracy and value inquiry / Ruth Anna Putnam -- Liberal democracy / Robert B. Wes