An accessible and authoritative guide to American philosophy.
Brilliant new essays from an eminent, international team of contributors.
An essential resource for the study of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Cheryl Misak presents the first collective study of the development of philosophy in North America, from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Twenty-six leading experts examine distinctive features of American philosophy, trace notable themes, and consider the legacy and influence of notable figures. This will be the first reference point for future work on the subject, and a fascinating resource for anyone interested in modern philosophy or American intellectual history.

Contents:
1: Roger Ward: Jonathan Edwards and 18th Century Religious Philosophy
2: Russell B. Goodman: Emerson, Romanticism and Classical American Pragmatism
3: Douglas Anderson: Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections
4: Henry Jackman: William James
5: Matthew Festenstein: John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics and Democracy
6: Kelly Parker: Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism
7: Glenn Tiller: George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized
8: Cornelis De Waal: A Pragmatist Wordview: George Herbert Mead`s Philosophy of the Act
9: Mitchell Aboulafia: W.E.B. Dubois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy and the Critical Turn
10: Robert Westbrook: The Pragmatist Family Romance
11: Cheryl Misak: The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
12: John Lango: Whitehead`s Metaphysical System
13: Joseph Heath: Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism
14: Robert Talisse: Pragmatism and the Cold War
15: Chris Hookway: Pragmatism and the Given: C.I. Lewis, Quine and Peirce
16: Arif Ahmed: W. V. Quine
17: Alan Richardson: Philosophy of Science in America
18: Hanjo Glock: The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy
19: Mark Lance: Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy in the 21st Century
20: Bjorn Ramberg: Rorty, Davidson and the Future of Metaphysics in America
21: Scott Soames: Analytic Philosophy in America
22: Danielle Macbeth: Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
23: Kok-Chor Tan: Liberal Equality: What, Where and Why
24: Brian Bix: Legal Philosophy in America
25: Brad Hooker: American Moral Philosophy
26: Ann Garry: Essences, Intersections and American Feminism