The American pragmatists

The founders of pragmatism. Pragmatist themes in early American thought

Chauncey Wright (1830-75)

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)

William James (1842-1910)

Fellow travelers

The middle period. The reception of early American pragmatism

John Dewey (1859-1952)

Fellow Travelers

The path to the twenty-first century. The rise of logical empiricism

Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964)

Willard van Orman Quine (1908-2000)

Fellow travelers

Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Hilary Putnam (1926- )

The current debates.