Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 12
5. The Fixation of Belief 37
6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear 50
7. Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results 66
8. Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth 79
9. The Will to Believe 92
10. The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy 109
11. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy 141
12. Creative Democracy—The Task before Us 150
13. The Democratic Way of Life 155
14. A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori 166
15. Words, Works, Worlds 174
16. The New Riddle of Induction 188
17. Two Dogmas of Empiricism 202
18. On What There Is 221
19. Natural Kinds 234
20. Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology 249
21. Language as Thought and as Communication 265
22. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 286
23. Meaning and Reference 299
24. Realism with a Human Face 309
25. A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy 331
26. The World Well Lost 353
27. Solidarity or Objectivity? 367
28. The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy 381
29. Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought 403
30. Double-Aspect Foundherentism 407
31. Pragmatic Adjudication 423
32. From Truth to Semantics 440
33. Truth as Convenient Friction 451
34. Making Disagreement Matter 471
35. Credits 485
36. Index 487