James on truth and solidarity: The epistomology of diversity and the politics of specificity

100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's Revolutionary Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 124-143

  Medina, José M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (26)

1. John J. McDermott, Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), esp. pp. 52 and 55-56.
2. See especially José Medina and David Wood, eds., Truth: Engagements across Philosophical Traditions (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 9-12.
3. See also Barry Allen, Truth in Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993) for a more detailed historical argument that also assigns this central critical role to James's and Nietzsche's views of truth.
4. Hartry Field, "Disquotational Truth and Factually Defective Discourse, " Philosophical Review 103, no. 3 [1994]: 405-52.
5. See Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons, eds., Truth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), for a sampler of minimalist and deflationary positions on truth and their debates with substantive theories of truth.
6. Cf. John Dewey, "Propositions, Warranted Assertibility, and Truth, " Journal of Philosophy 38 (1941): 169-85, .
7. F. C. S. Schiller, Studies in Humanism (London: Macmillan, 1907).
8. Stuhr, Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience, and Community (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997).
9. I have discussed in more detail the critical role that the imagination should play in epistemology in "Pluralism and the Epistemology of Resistance" (paper presented at the International Conference on Identity and Memory, Mérida, Mexico, September 2006).
10. See especially Richard Rorty, "Universality and Truth, " in Rorty and His Critics, ed. Robert Brandom (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 1-30.
11. See especially Jürgen Habermas, "Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn, " in Medina and Wood, Truth, pp. 109-29.
12. George Herbert Mead, Philosophy of the Present (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1949), p. 33.
13. see his Mind, Self and Society [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934]).
14. James Bohman, "Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative Democracy" in Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, ed. Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), p. 123.
15. ("Pragmatism and Solidarity with the Past, " in Kautzer and Mendieta, eds., Pragmatism, Nation, and Race, p. 79).
16. Helen Longino, Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990).
17. Carol C. Gould, "Transnational Solidarities, " Journal of Social Philosophy 38, no. 1 (2007): 148-64.
18. Carol C. Gould, "Transnational Solidarities, " Journal of Social Philosophy 38, no. 1 (2007),Ibid., pp. 156-57.
19. See my "Pragmatism and Ethnicity: Critique, Reconstruction, and the New Hispanic, " Metaphilosophy 35 (2004): 115-46, .
20. Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Black: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005).
21. See María Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), .
22. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds., This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (New York: Kitchen Table Press, 1981).
23. "Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference, " Philosophy and Social Criticism 29 (2003): 655-80.
24. Edward Said, Orientalism: 25th Anniversary Edition (New York: Vintage Books, 1979/1994).
25. Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism (New York: Routledge, 1997), see esp. pp. 49-52.
26. Gould, "Transnational Solidarities, " pp. 156-57.