Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead's writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This volume questions the wisdom of that separation, exploring their connections, both historical and in application. The essays in this volume embody original and creative work by leading scholars that not only furthers the understanding of American philosophy, but seeks to advance it by working at the intersection of experience and reality to incite novel and creative thought. This exploration is long overdue. Specific questions that are addressed are: Is Whitehead a pragmatist? What contrasts and affinities exist between American pragmatism and Whitehead's thought? What new questions, strategies, and critiques emerge by juxtaposing their distinct perspectives?
1 Is Whitehead a Pragmatist? On the Pragmatic Elements in Whitehead's Metaphysics, William T. Myers 2 Ultimate Good Sense: Whitehead's Ontological Fallibilism, George Allan 3 Whitehead's Pragmatic Epistemology, Joseph D. John 4 Prefiguring Whitehead: Reading Jamesian Pragmatism with Stengers and Latour, Steven Meyer 5 Whitehead's Speculative Contribution to Praxis: Praxis and American Philosophy, Thomas M. Jeannot 6 Contingency All the Way Down: Whitehead Among the Pragmatists, Nancy Frankenberry 7 Whitehead's "Rescue" of American Anti-Intellectualism: The Question of Pragmatism, Scott Sinclair 8 Surprise, Event, and the Problem of Novelty: A Comparison Between C. S. Peirce and A. N. Whitehead, Maria Regina Brioschi 9 Creative Love: Eros and Agape in Peirce and Whitehead, Brian G. Henning 10 DNA: A Process View, Michael Brady 11 The Habit of Art: Whitehead, Aesthetics, and Pragmatism, Nicholas Gaskill 12 A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead's Analysis of Religious Experience, Eleonora Mingarelli 13 Transition, Transmutation, and Transfiguration: Notes for a Poetics of Experience, Vincent Colapietro 14 Feeling Forming Forward: Ecstasis and Experience in Process-Pragmatic Perspective, Jude Jones
