Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. From Colonial Beginnings to Philosophical Greatness

2. Jonathan Edwards on God and Casuality

3. Some Early American Critics of Determinism Samuel Johnson
Ethan Allen
A Noble Unitarian 4. Emerson's Secularized Calvinsim and Thoreau's Approach to Anarchism

5. James's Empirical Pragmatism

6. Royce's Mistakes and Achievements

7. A Revision of Pierce's Categories

8. The Down-to-Earth Activism of John Dewey

9. Whitehead's Revolutionary Concept of Prehension

10. Santayana's Skeptical Eclecticism

11. Mead's Social Psychology and Philosophy of the Present

12. Hocking and Perry on Idealism

13. Lewis on Memory, Modalility, and the Given

14. Choen and Sheldon on Polarity Morris R. Cohen's Agnostic Rationalism
Wilmon H. Sheldon's Classical Theism 15. Blanshard's Necessitarianism

16. Brightman's Theory of the Given and Idea of God
17. Pepper and McKeon on Philosophical Systems

18. Montague's Animistic Materialism and Promethean Religion

19. Weiss's Phenomonology of Religion

20. Adler's Neo-Aristotelianism

21. Roy and Wilfrid Sellars on Quality and Structure

22. Quine, Philosophical Logician

23. Tillich's Philosophicla Theology

24. Rorty's Pragmatism and Farewell to the Age of Faith and Enlightenment

25. Neville on Creation and Buchler on Natural Complexes

26.Nozick's Indecisive Dialectic and the Meaning of Life

27. Conclusion

Indexes

About the Author

Charles Hartshorne is the author of Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.Whitehead's Philosophy, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, A Natural Theology of Our Time, and The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics, also published by SUNY Press. Dr. Hartshorne is past president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysics Society of America, the Charles Peirce Society, the Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.