Table of Contents

Introduction Purpose of this Work Personal Note List of Abbreviations Part I. William James 1. Meaning and Truth Pragmatism Radical Empiricism 2. Body and Mind Materialism versus Dualism Neither Dualism nor Materialism A Radical Empiricist View of Mind and Body 3. Free Will Psychology and the Subjective Experience of Free Will Indeterminism and the Physical Possibility of Free Will A Late Twentieth-Century Adaptation of James's Concept of Free Will 4. William James and Moral Philosophy The Task of the Moral Philosopher James's Moral Ideals The Adequacy of James's Theory 5. Rationality and Religious Faith Faith in the Salvation of the World The Meaning of Rationality The Reasonableness of Theism William James's Personal Faith Human Immortality 6. Human Nature and the Life of the Spirit Spirituality Defined and Placed in a Metaphysical Context Naturalism and Spirituality The How and Why of Spirituality A Worldview Compatible with Spirit Part II. Josiah Royce 7. The Idealism of Josiah Royce Ideas and Reality TheFirst and Second Conceptions of Being: Realism and Mysticism The Third Conception of Being: Critical Rationalism The Fourth Conception of Being: Royce's Idealism 8. Josiah Royce's Concept of the Self The Ambiguity of the Self The Self as an Ethical Category The Individual and the Whole 9. Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty as the Basis for Ethics Royce's Idea of Loyalty The American Problem The Contemporary Problem The Practicality of Roycean Loyalty Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life 10. The Religious Insights of Josiah Royce Individual Experience Social Experience Reason Will Loyalty Sorrow Unity of the Spirit What James Missed Part III. Charles Sanders Peirce 11. Peirce and the Origin of Pragmatism Peirce's Pragmatism Peirce's Critique of Nominalistic Pragmatism 12. Charles Sanders Peirce on the Human Person Peirce's Critique of the Separated Self The Illusory Self and the Authentic Self 13. Ethics and the Purpose of Human Life Reasons for the Incompatibility of Practical Theoretical Ethics The Place of Ethics in Peirce's Architectonic Love and Evolution Deriving a Virtue Ethic from Peirce's Theoretical Ethics Continuity of Practical and Theoretical Ethics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Richard P. Mullin is Professor of Philosophy at Wheeling Jesuit University.