This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions. The main theoretical thrust of Dewey is to unite inquiry with behavior and this book's contributions assess this insight in the light of developments in modern American philosophy, social and legal theories, and the theoretical orientation of economics.
This unique book contains impressive contributions from a range of different perspectives and its unique nature will make it required reading for academics involved with philosophy and economics.
Introduction
John Dewey, the Transactional View and the Behavioural Sciences
Part One: Pragmatism and Postmodernism
1. Five Milestones of Pragmatism Frank X. Ryan
2. John Dewey and the Pragmatic Century Richard Bernstein
3. Putnam and Rorty on their Pramatist Heritage: Re-Reading James and Dewey Sami Pihlström
4. Dewey and/or Rorty Joseph Margolis
5. Avoiding Wrong Turns: A Philippic Against the Lingustification of Pragmatism David L. Hildebrand
6. Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism Larry A. Hickman
7. Toward a Truly Pragmatic Theory of Signs: Reading Peirce's Semeiotic in Light of Dewey's Gloss Vincent Colapietro
Part Two: Inquiry, Language and Nature
8. Dewey on Inquiry and Language - After Bentley John E. Smith
9. Dewey, Analytic Epistemology, and Biology Peter H. Hare
10. Pragmatic Naturalism, Knowing the World, and the Issue of Foundations: Beyond the Modernist-Postmodernist Alternative Sandra Rosenthal
Part Three: Inquiry and Society
11. John Dewey and the Intersection of Democracy and Law Richard Posner
12. Truth but No Consequences: Why Philosophy Doesn't Matter Stanley Fish
13. The Logical Necessity of Ideologies Tom Burke
14. Pragmatism John J. Stuhr
15. Corrigibilism Without Solidarity Isaac Levi
Part Four: Economic Methodology
16. Pragmatism, Knowledge, and Economic Science: Deweyan Pragmatic Philosophy and Contemporary Economic Methodology D. Wade Hands
17. A Deweyan Economic Methodology Alex Viskovatoff
18. Dewey and Economic Reality Michael S. Lawlor
19. The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey's Theory of Inquiry Peter Boettke, Don Lavoie and Virgil Storr
20. After the 'New Economics,' Pragmatist Turn? William Milberg
Biography
Elias L. Khalil was Director of the Behavioral Research Council, American Institute for Economic Research. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics, Vassar College, USA.
