Contents Rosa Maria MAYORGA: Rethinking Democratic Ideals in Light of Charles Peirce Lara M. TROUT: ¿Colorblindness¿ and Sincere Paper-Doubt: A Socio-political Application of C. S. Peirce¿s Critical Common-sensism James R. WIBLE: The Economic Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce James Ronald STANFIELD and Michael C. CARROLL: The Pragmatist Legacy in American Institutionalism Mike O¿CONNOR: The Limits of Liberalism: Pragmatism, Democracy and Capitalism Dwayne A. TUNSTALL: Cornel West, John Dewey, and the Tragicomic Undercurrents of Deweyan Creative Democracy Eric Thomas WEBER: Religion, Public Reason, and Humanism: Paul Kurtz on Fallibilism and Ethics Jerome A. POPP: John Dewey¿s Ethical Naturalism Book Notes David BOERSEMA: Pragmatism and Reference. Robert BRANDOM: Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Larry A. HICKMAN: Pragmatism as Post-postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey. Mark JOHNSON: The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding.

Contents Meg Holden, Andy Scerri, and Cameron Owens: More Publics, More Problems: The Productive Interface between the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique and Deweyan Pragmatism Erin C. Tarver: Signifying ¿Hillary¿: Making (Political) Sense with Butler and Dewey Joel Chow Ken Q: The Internet and the Democratic Imagination: Deweyan Communication in the 21st Century David Boersema: Pragmatism v. Originalism: A Mistrial? Aaron Massecar: The Fitness of an Ideal: A Peircean Ethics Sharyn Clough: Pragmatism and Embodiment as Resources for Feminist Interventions in Science Mark Tschaepe: Gradations of Guessing: Preliminary Sketches and Suggestions Jonathan Knowles: Non-Reductive Naturalism and the Vocabulary of Agency Tibor Solymosi: Cooking Up Consciousness John Capps: Review of Huw Price, Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism Clayton Chin: Review of Michael Bacon, Pragmatism: An Introduction Mathew A. Foust: Review of Kelly A. Parker and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, ed., Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations

Contents Articles Lawrence Cahoone: Local Naturalism Mark Dietrich Tschaepe: Pragmatics and Pragmatic Considerations in Explanation Stephen S. Bush: Nothing Outside the Text: Derrida and Brandom on Language and World Scott F. Aikin: Prospects for Peircean Epistemic Infinitism Guy Axtell and Philip Olson: Three Independent Factors in Epistemology Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy: John Dewey on Happiness: Going Against the Grain of Contemporary Thought Jay Schulkin: Life Experiences and Educational Sensibilities Discussion J. Caleb Clanton and Andrew T. Forcehimes: Can Peircean Epistemic Perfectionists Bid Farewell to Deweyan Democracy? Robert B. Talisse: Reply to Clanton and Forcehimes

Informed by the pragmatism of John Dewey, this book argues the practical benefits for public policy of a rigorous experimentalist approach to applying moral theory.

Table of Content Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 5 Number 1 June 2008 Catherine LEGG: Argument-Forms Which Turn Invalid Over Infinite Domains: Physicalism as Supertask? Joseph MARGOLIS: Wittgenstein¿s Question and the Ubiquity of Cultural Space Jay SCHULKIN: Cognitive Adaptation: Insights from a Pragmatist Perspective Jay SCHULKIN: Cephalic Organization: Animacy and Agency Lara M. TROUT: C. S. Peirce, Antonio Damasio, and Embodied Cognition: A Contemporary Post-Darwinian Account of Feeling and Emotion in the `Cognition Series¿ Rita RISSER: Industry and Quiescence in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Lenart SKOF: Pragmatism and Social Ethics: An Intercultural and Phenomenological Approach Andrew STABLES: Semiosis, Dewey and Difference: Implications for Pragmatic Philosophy of Education Book Reviews Scott R. STROUD: Review of Cheryl Misak, ed. New Pragmatists. Jacob GOODSON: Review of Romand Coles and Stanley Hauerwas. Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian.

This fifth volume of the JIDR is devoted to a wide range of research themes, which are all linked to the concepts of learning, motivation and happiness, both implicitly and explicitly. The discussions in these articles highlight several recurring and yet under-researched issues in these fields. The most critical of these themes is what leads to excellence in learning, well being and optimism levels. In publishing this symposium, we believe that our 18 authors offer pertinent reflections upon this valid question.

Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Plato’s Republic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Dewey’s democratic thought. The book continues the democratic turn for the study of leadership beyond the incorporation of democratic values into old-fashioned views about leading. The completed democratic turn leaves behind the traditional focus on a class of special people. Instead, leadership is understood as a process of judicious yet courageous guidance, infused with democratic values and open to all people. The book proceeds in three parts, beginning with definitions and an understanding of the nature of leadership in general and of democratic leadership in particular. Then, Part II examines four challenges for a democratic theory of leadership. Finally, in Part III, the theory of democratic leadership is put to the test of addressing problems of poverty, educational frustration, and racial divides, particularly aggravated in Mississippi.