The Relevance of Royce

Kelly A. Parker is professor of philosophy, environmental studies, and liberal studies at Grand Valley State University. His research and writing focus on classical American philosophy, environmental pragmatism, and pragmatist aesthetics. Parker is the author of The Continuity of Peirce’s Thought (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998) and co-editor, with Krzyszt of Piotr Skowron´ski, of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations (Lexington Books, 2012). He is a past president and Fellow of the Josiah Royce Society.Bell Jason :

Jason Bell is Research Fellow at the International Centre for Phenomenology and the Husserl Archives at the KU Leuven, and director of the Discovering the Origins of Pragmatism and Phenomenology Project at Mount Allison University. He served as 2010 2011 Fulbright Professor at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and has taught at Vanderbilt University, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Central Oklahoma. His current work is dedicated to exploring relations between pragmatism and phenomenology, particularly in the thought of Josiah Royce, C. S. Peirce, William James, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and
Edith Stein.

—Shannon Sullivan:
“This is a thoughtful, balanced collection of new essays on Royce that demonstrates his ongoing value to contemporary philosophers.”

David Rodick, Xavier University:
"'The Relevance of Royce' is a valuable contribution to contemporary Royce scholarship. Scholars working in the field of classical American philosophy must consult this rich source.