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Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. In the received history, it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." The author demonstrates that pragmatism and its development involved the work of a wide range of thinkers who have been overlooked in the history of philosophy.

Investigates the logical theory of C.S. Peirce, Josiah Royce, and John Dewey, as well as the theory of communicative action of Jurgen Habermas. Framing problems, discussion questions, and various assignments provide occasions to connect the study of logic to other areas of philosophical inquiry.

Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it hasbeen understood as a development of European thought in response to the"American wilderness." A closer examination, however, reveals that theroots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. NativePragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive thescope and potential of American philosophy. Pragmatism has been at best onl...

Focusing on a broad approach to the issues of logic in their relation to inquiry, argument, and principles of order, "Logic" introduces the philosophy of logic, the traditional theory of the syllogism, induction, and probability, and propositional and predicate logic. Framing the study of logic in terms of problems connected to wider issues of epistemic, political, and moral concerns that emerge in the context of racial, cultural, and religiou...