Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals Deconstruction and Reconstruction. The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two. RYDER, John and Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2004, XV, 254 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-1681-1 / 90-420-1681-7 € 54 / US$ 73 Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 156 Studies in Pragmatism and Values The essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, ethics, aesthetics, experience, knowledge, rationality, metaphysics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe. Contents: Foreword by Hans Joas Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited TOWARD DEMOCRACY TWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey’s Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey’s Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy ETHICS EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational? NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics AESTHETICS TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty ELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics? THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey’s and Helmuth Plessner’s Approaches FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana’s Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object SIXTEEN Emil VIŠNOVSKÝ: Dewey’s Reconstruction of Rationality SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas’ Construction and Deconstruction of the World NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place About the Editors and Contributors Index ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Lyubov Bugaeva is Docent in the Faculty of Philology at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Recent publications include “The Myth of the Road to Damascus,” “The Literary Field as a Space for Philosophical and Religious Dialogue,” and “The Ontology of Dialogue: Philosophical and Artistic Experience.” James Campbell is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo, Ohio. He has been a Fulbright lecturer in Austria and Germany. His latest book is Understanding Benjamin Franklin. Vincent Colapietro is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom, and his current projects include a study of Peirce and one exploring the connections between psychoanalysis and pragmatism. Michael Eldridge teaches philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Recent publications include Transforming Experience: John Dewey’s Cultural Instrumentalism and the Introduction for the second volume (1919-39) of the Dewey correspondence on CD-ROM. Anthony Graybosch is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He co-edited Ethics and Values in the Information Age with Joel Rudinow and is working on the entry on marriage for the Encyclopedia of Sex, edited by Alan Soble. Piotr Gutowski is Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Recent publications include, in Polish: Process Philosophy and Its Metaphilosophy and Between Monism and Pluralism: A Study of the Genesis and Foundations of John Dewey’s Philosophy. He has co-edited, with Tadeusz Szubka, an anthology titled British Philosophy at the Close of 20th Century. Igor Hanzel is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Methodology of Science at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Recent publications include The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philo-sophy of Science and Epistemology: A Study of Theoretical Reason. Martin Kilanowski is a graduate student in the Institute of Philosophy, Nicolas Copernicus University, Poland. He is the author of several articles on pragmatic philosophy and philosophy of politics. He is currently finishing his PhD dissertation: Freedom as Responsibility. Between American and Continental Pragmatism. Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Philosophy at Wroclaw University and Lower Silesian University College of Education, Poland. He is an author of 3 books on American pragmatism, including Activity-Individual-Society: The Concept of the Self in American Pragmatism. Hans-Peter Krueger is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Recent publications include, in German, Between Laughing and Crying. Vol. I.: The Spectrum of Human Phenomena, and Vol. II: The Third Way of Philosophical Anthropology and the Question of Genders/Sexes. He is also co-editor of the “Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.” Mark Lovas lives in Bratislava, Slovakia. Recent publications include “American Opti-mism Meets Slavic Fatalism: Reflections on Social Categories and Political Power.” Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Metaphilosophy. His most recent book is The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, co-edited with John Ryder. John J. McDermott is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the American Grain and Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of American Culture. He has edited the writings of William James, Josiah Royce, and John Dewey. He is currently editing the multi-volume edition of The Correspondence of William James. Mateusz Oleksy is Adjunct Professor of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Lodz, Poland. He is the author of a number of articles on the realism/antirealism controversy, pragmatism, Peirce, neo-pragmatism, deflationism, and Wittgenstein. Leif Östman is an architect and Principal Lecturer at the Swedish Polytechnic, Finland. He is preparing a dissertation at the School of Architecture, Stockholm, on design theory and the implications of John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy on design theory. John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of International Programs, State University of New York. Recent publications include Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought, The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden, co-edited with Scott Pratt, and The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, co-edited with Armen Marsoobian. John R. Shook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He authored Dewey’s Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality, edited Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, and is now preparing the Blackwell Companion to Pragmatism with Joseph Margolis. He is also co-editor of the journal Contemporary Pragmatism. Jane Skinner is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Natal, in Durban, South Africa. Her recent publications include “Why (Education) Policy Can’t Be Implemented These Days: Some Philosophical Considerations” in Journal of Education. Tadeusz Szubka is Professor and Director of the Philosophy Institute at Szczecin University, Poland. He is the author of two books and a number of papers in analytical philosophy. He also edited several widely used collections of essays, including The Mind-Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate. Paul B. Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Com-munity Ethics at Michigan State University, where he is also a Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Agricultural Economics and Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies. He is the author of five books and the co-editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. Emil Višnovský is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Biological Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the coauthor of three books, most recently Pragmatism and Neopragmatism (in Slovak) and has translated two anthologies on pragmatism and Dewey into Slovak. Gert-R. Wegmarshaus is Privat-Dozent of Political Science at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He is the author of Komplementaritaet: Zivilgesellschaft und demokratischer Staat, and numerous articles in political theory and comparative politics. Krystyna Wilkoszewska is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Jagiellonian University, Kraców, Poland. She is the author and editor of several books on aesthetics, including Art as the Rhythm of Life. Reconstruction of John Dewey’s Philosophy of Art, and numerous articles in contemporary pragmatist aesthetics.	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl