Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science
Part1: General Themes
1. Pattern Ontologies at Work
2. Scientific Representation and Normative Inquiry
3. Distinguishing Philosophy and Science: Defending a Pragmatist Quietism in the Realism/Instrumentalism Debate in the Philosophy of Science
4. Affective Rationalism and Pragmatic Philosophies of Science
5. Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics: A Study in Pragmatism
Part2: Special Sciences
6. Pragmatism and Mathematics
7. A Neopragmatist Intervention in Science
8. Pragmatism and Cognitive Science
9. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Economics
10. On the Uses and Disadvantages of Social Science for Law
11. Interdisciplinary Environmental Science as Ethical Inquiry
12. Theology as an Experimental Science: Some Pragmatic Considerations
Part3: Science and Society
13. The Relevance of Pragmatism for an Open Science Approach
14. Democratizing Explanatory Practice in the Social Sciences
15. Trust, Expertise, and Scientific Authority in a Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach
16. Thick Scientific Concepts and Public Problems: Citizens as Semantic Contributors
17. Pragmatism, Science, and Feminism: William James’s Psychical Research