Abstract: Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth-Century Religious Philosophy – Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism – Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections – William James – John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics, and Democracy – Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism – George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized – A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act – W. E. B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Critical Turn – The Pragmatist Family Romance – The Reception of Early American Pragmatism – Whitehead's Metaphysical System – Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism – Pragmatism and the Cold War – Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce – W. V. Quine – Philosophy of Science in America – The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy – Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century – Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics in America – Analytic Philosophy in America – Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics – Liberal Equality: What, Where, and Why – Legal Philosophy in America – American Moral Philosophy – Essences, Intersections, and American Feminism

Keywords: consciousness, democracy, equality, essence, ethics, feminism, future, given, idealism, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy, pragmatism, Romanticism, philosophy of science, space, transcendental, analytic philosophy