Includes bibliographical references and index.

Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism's past, present, and future as a guiding paradigm for philosophy and related fields

Indice:Contemporary engagements with the classical pragmatists. Hegel and the classical pragmatists : prolegomenon to a future discussion / Michael J. Baur ; The inferences that never were : Peirce, perception, and Bernstein's The pragmatic turn / Richard Kenneth Atkins ; Peirce's theory of truth and fallibilism / Hugh McDonad ; Bernstein's deployment of Jamesian democratic pluralism : the pragmatic turn and the future of philosophy / Judith M. Green ; The turn within the pragmatic turn : recovering Bernstein's democratic Dewey / Shane J. Ralston ; Dewey as a radical Democrat and a liberal Democarat : considerations on Bernstein on Dewey / Colin Koopman -- Pragmatist engagements with contemporary philosphy. Democratic community participation : Bernstein between Dewey and an achieved deeply Democratic future / David W. Woods ; Ideals after the "pragmatic turn" / S. Joshua Thomas ; Abstract objectivity : Richard J. Bernstein's critique of Hilary Putnam / Brendan Hogan and Lawrence Marcelle ; Pragmatism's constructive project / Philip Kitcher ; Truth, objectivity, and experience after the pragmatic turn : Bernstein on Habermas's "Kantian pragmatism" / Jeffrey Flynn ; Now what? Richard J. Bernstein and philosophy after Rorty / David E. McClean.