Sources in American Philosophy

Grand Valley State University
Kelly Parker
parkerk@gvsu.edu

Contents:

General Works

Flower, Elizabeth and Murray G. Murphey. A History of Philosophy in America. 2 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.

Inada, Kenneth K. and Nolan P. Jacobson. Buddhism and American Thinkers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Kuklick, Bruce. A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

MacKinnon, Barbara, ed. American Philosophy: A Historical Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.

Shook, John R. and Joseph Margolis, eds. A Companion to Pragmatism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2006.

Smith, John E. America's Philosophical Vision. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Journals in American Philosophy:

American Philosophical Quarterly.

Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

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Early Philosophy in America: c. 1630-1836

Anthologies of American literature, such as those published by Macmillan or Norton, contain numerous selections from primary sources and suggestions for locating additional material.

Axtell, J. After Columbus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Bremer, Francis J. The Puritan Experiment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.

Daniel, Stephen. The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.

Online resources maintained by Philip R. Johnson:

Pratt, Scott. Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy. Indiana University Press, 2002.

Smith, John E. Jonathan Edwards: Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

Weymouth, Lally, ed. Thomas Jefferson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

Wilshire, Bruce. The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

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Romanticism and Transcendentalism

Michaels, Walter B. and Donald E. Pease, eds. American Renaissance Reconsidered. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Goodman, Russell. American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941.

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Classical American Philosophy

*See additional sources listed in John Stuhr, ed., Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy, Second ed., New York: Oxford, 2000.

Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001.

Wilshire, Bruce. The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

The Web Companion to Pragmatism. http://www.pragmatism.org/companion/index.htm

Peirce, Charles S.

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. 8 vols. Ed. C. Hartshorne, P. Weiss, A. Burks. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-58.

Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. 4 vols. to date. Ed. E. Moore, C. J. W. Kloesel, et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982--.

Brent, Joseph. Charles S. Peirce: A Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Hookway, Christopher. Peirce. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.

Murphey, Murray G. The Development of Peirce's Philosophy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.

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James, William.

The Works of William James. Gen. ed. F. Burkhardt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975--.

Myers, Gerald. William James: His Life and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

McDermott, John J. "Introduction." The Writings of William James. Ed. J. McDermott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Nishida, Kitaro. An Inquiry into the Good. Trans. M. Abe and C. Ives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Perry, Ralph Barton. The Thought and Character of William James. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935.

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Royce, Josiah.

Basic Writings of Josiah Royce. 2 vols. Ed. J. McDermott. University of Chicago Press, 1969. Reprinted Fordham University Press, 2005.

The Problem of Christianity. Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

The Sources of Religious Insight. Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

The Philosophy of Josiah Royce. Ed. J. Roth. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1982.

Clendenning, John. The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. [Revised and expanded edition. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.]

Smith, John E. Royce's Social Infinite: The Community of Interpretation. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1969 [1950].

Oppenheim, Frank. Royce's Mature Philosophy of Religion. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

----------.  Royce's Mature Ethics. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.

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Hocking, William Ernest

The Meaning of God in Human Experience. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912.

Man and the State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926.

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Dewey, John.

• The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  http://www.siu.edu/~deweyctr/
• Democracy and Education, complete text
  http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/texts/dewey/d_e/title.html

John Dewey: The Early Works, 1882-1898. 5 vols. Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969-72.

John Dewey: The Middle Works, 1899-1924. 15 vols. Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976-83.

John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-53. 16 vols. Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981--.

Fesmire, Steven.  John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003.

McDermott, John J. "Introduction." The Philosophy of John Dewey. Ed. J. McDermott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Sleeper, Ralph W. The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Welchman, Jennifer.  Dewey's Ethical Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

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Jane Addams

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
See the list of Educational and Research Resources for a complete list of writings.
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/

Fischer, Marilyn and Judy D. Whipps. Jane Addams's Writings on Peace. 4 vols. Thoemmes Press, 2003.

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Alain Locke

Alain Locke Society
http://www.alainlocke.com/

Washington, J. Journey into the Philosophy of Alain Locke. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1994.

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George H. Mead

George's Page
http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/

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Santayana, George.

The Works of George Santayana. 4 vols. to date. Ed. Herman Saatkamp, Jr. and W. G. Holzberger. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986--.

Lachs, John. George Santayana. Boston: Twayne, 1986.

Sprigge, Timothy. Santayana: An Examination of His Philosophy. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

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Whitehead, Alfred North.

Process and Reality. Corrected edition. Ed. D. Griffin and D. Sherburne. New York: The Free Press, 1978.

Science and the Modern World. New York: The Free Press, 1953.

Sherburne, Donald, ed. A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Christian, William A. An Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

Lowe, Victor. Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work. 2 vols. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985-1990.

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Langer, Susanne K.

Feeling and Form. New York: Scribner, 1953.

Philosophy in a New Key. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling. 3 vols. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967, 1972, 1982.

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American Pragmatism since the Mid-Twentieth Century

Burch, Robert and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., eds. Frontiers in American Philosophy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992.

Dickstein, Morris, ed. The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.

Green, Judith M. Deep Democracy. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington; Indiana Univeristy Press, 1990.

Hildebrand, David. Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003.

Lachs, John. A Community of Individuals. New York: Routledge, 2002.

McDermott, John J. Culture of Experience. New York: New York University Press, 1976.

----------. Streams of Experience. Amhert: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

McGee, Glenn, ed.  Pragmatic Bioethics.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.

Misak, Cheryl, ed. New Pragmatists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Misak, Cheryl.  Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Putnam, Hilary.  Pragmatism: An Open Question. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1995.

Rajchman, John and Cornel West. Post-Analytic Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Rorty, Richard. Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.

----------. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

----------. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Rosenthal, Sandra. Speculative Pragmatism. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1986.

Shusterman, Richard.  The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004.

Stout, Jeffrey. Democracy and Tradition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Stuhr, John. J.  Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Sullivan, Michael. Legal Pragmatism: Community, Roghts, and Democracy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Talisse, Robert B. A Pragmatist Theory of Democracy. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Trotter, C. Griffin.  The Loyal Physician.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.

West, Cornel. The American Evasion of Philosophy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

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African American Perspectives

Philosophy Born of Struggle
http://www.pbos.com/

Barnett, Ida B. Wells. Crusade for Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

----------. On Lynchings. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

Harris, Leonard, ed. Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1983.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. San Francisco: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

X, Malcolm, with Alex Haley. Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965.

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Native American Perspectives

Native American Cultural Philosophy

Allen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop. Beacon Press, 1986.

Brown, Joseph Eppes. The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian. Crossroad, 1984.

Deloria, Vine. God is Red. Dell Publishing, 1973.

----------. The Metaphysics of Modern Existence. Harper & Row, 1979.

Pratt, Scott. Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy. Indiana University Press, 2002.

Underhill, Ruth. Red Man's America. University of Chicago Press, 1953.

----------. Red Man's Religion. University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Wilshire, Bruce. The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

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Environmental Perspectives

Fuller, Robert C. "American Pragmatism Reconsidered: Wiliam James' Ecological Ethic." Environmental Ethics 14 (Summer 1992): 159-76.

Katz, Eric and Andrew Light. Environmental Pragmatism. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Hoopes, James. Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

McDermott, John J. "Nature Nostalgia and the City," in Culture of Experience. New York: New York University Press, 1976.

Miller, Perry. "Nature and the National Ego" in Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. Third edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Paehlke, Robert C. Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Parker, Kelly. "The Values of a Habitat." Environmental Ethics 12 (Winter 1990): 353-368.

----------. "Economics, Sustainable Growth, and Community." Environmental Values 2 (3).

Shi, David E. The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Stone, Christopher. Earth and Other Ethics. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New York: Vintage Books, 1950.

Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

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Writings from Faculty at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA

Garcia-Rivera, Alejandro. The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999.

Gelpi, Donald L. Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000.

----------. The Gracing of Human Experience: Rethinking the Relationship between Nature and Grace. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001.

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Works on Feminism and Pragmatism

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock. Pragmatism and Feminism.  University of Chicago Press, 1996.

(The following are from the SAAP Feminist Pragmatist Working Group, assembled by Prof. Erin McKenna, Pacific Lutheran University, March 1995)

Aboulafia, Mitchell. 1993. "Was George Herbert Mead a Feminist?" Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Antler, Joyce. 1981. "Feminism as a Life Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell." Feminist Studies. Vol. 7 (spring).

Boydston, Jo Ann. 1975. "John Dewey and the New Feminism." Teacher's College Record. vol. 76.

Bickford, Susan. 1993. "Why We Listen to Lunatics: Antifoundational Theories and Feminist Politics." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Deegan, Mary Jo. 1978. "Women in Sociology: 18901930." Journal of the History of Sociology. Vol. 1.

----------. 1988. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School. 1892-1918.New Brunswick: Transaction Books.

Duran, Jane. 1993. "The Intersection of Feminism and Pragmatism." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Fraser, Nancy. 1990. "From Irony to Prophecy To Politics: A Response to Richard Rorty." Michigan Quarterly Review. (Spring, 1991)

Gatens-Robinson, Eugenie. 1991. "Dewey and the Feminist Successor Science Project." Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society. Fall 27(4).

----------. 1993. "John Dewey and Donna Haraway on Objectivity: The Pragmatic Ecology of the Object." Speculative Philosophy (forthcoming)

Gordon, Lynn. 1990. Gender and Education in the Progressive Era. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Hart, Carroll Guen. 1993. "Power in the Service of Love": John Dewey's Logic and the Dream of a Common Language." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Heldke, Lisa. 1987. "John Dewey and Evelyn Fox Keller: A Shared Epistemological Tradition." Hypatia 2 (3).

Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. 1993. "Teasing Feminist Sense From Experience." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Laird, Susan. 1988. "Woman and gender in John Dewey's philosophy of education." Education theory 38 (1).

Leffers, M. Regina. 1993. "Pragmatists Jane Addams and John Dewey Inform the Ethic of Care." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Mahovald, Mary B. 1987. "A majority perspective: Feminine and feminist elements in American philosophy." Cross currents: 36 (4).

Miller, Margorie. 1992. "Feminism and Pragmatism: On the Arrival of A "Ministry of Disturbance, a Regulated Source of Annoyance; A Destroyer of Routine; An Underminer of Complacency." The Monist. vol. 75, no. 4

Miranda, Wilma R. 1980. "Implication in Dewey for Feminist Theory in Education." summer.

Mitchell, Lucy Sprague. 1953. Two Lives: The Story of Wesley Clair Mitchell and Myself. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Nelson, Lynn Hankinson. 1993. "A Question of Evidence." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Pappas, Gregory Fernando. 1993. "Dewey and Feminism: The Affective and Relationships in Dewey's Ethics." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Rooney, Phyllis. 1993. "FeministPragmatist Revisionings of Reason, Knowledge, and Philosophy." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Rorty, Richard. 1991. "Feminism and Pragmatism." Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring).

----------. 1993. "Feminism Ideology, and Deconstruction: A Pragmatist View." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Rosenberg, Rosalind. 1982. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Royce, Josiah, et al. (1331). "1331 Letter from the Harvard Philosophy Department." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock. 1984. "Genderspecific values." The Philosophical Forum 15(4).

----------. 1989. "Pragmatism, Feminism and Sensitivity to Context." Who cares? Theory research and education implication of the ethic of care. Mary M. Brabeck, ed. New York: Praeger Press.

----------. 1990. "Second Sex: Second thoughts." Reprinted in Hypatia reborn: Essays in feminist philosophy. Azizah Y. alHibri and Margaret A. Simons, ed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

----------. 1990. "Poetic invention and scientific observation: James model of 'sympathetic concrete observations'." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26(1).

----------. 1991. "Where are All the Pragmatist Feminists?" Hypatia vol. 6, no. 2, (summer).

----------. 1991. "The Missing Perspective: Feminist Pragmatism." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. vol. 27, no. 4, (fall).

----------. 1992. "Classical American Philosophy's Invisible Women." Canadian Review of American Studies. special issue, part 1.

----------. 1993. "Like Passing From Lunacy to Sanity: William James Interprets Women." (forthcoming)

----------. 1993. "Shared Communities of Interest: Feminism and Pragmatism." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

----------. 1993. "Introduction to Jessie Taft's The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness (doctoral dissertation)." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

----------. 1993. "Introduction to the Letter from the Harvard Philosophy Department Concerning Mary Whiton Calkins." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

----------. 1993. "Validating Women's Experience Pragmatically." Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture: Pragmatic Essays After Dewey. John Stuhr, ed. Albany: State University Press.

----------. 1994. "The Chicago Connection: The Untold Story of Feminism and Pragmatism." delivered at meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Houston, March, 1994.

Taft, Jessie. 1915. The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness. Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

Upin, Jane. 1993. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Instrumentalism Beyond Dewey." Hypatia. vol. 8, no. 2, (spring).

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