Speakers
John Clendenning
John Clendenning is Professor of English, Emeritus, at California State
University, Northridge. He is best known for his
text The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), which
reflects his interest in idealism as expressed through American literature and philosophy.
Harvey Cormier
Harvey Cormier has a wide range of interests in philosophy, from the
ethics of animal rights to philosophy and culture. Cormier is the author of
The Truth Is What Works: William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death (Rowman and Littlefield,
2000), and
is Associate Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Mathias Girel
Mathias Girel is a Research Scholar at EXECO (Expérience et connaissance,
Paris 1 Sorbonne), where he is completing his doctoral work on pragmatism. Girel has published a number of articles on James, Peirce, and Pragmatism.
He has also translated and written the introduction to the French edition (2005) of
William James's Essays on Radical Empiricism.
Peter Hare
Peter Hare is Distinguished Service Professor,
Emeritus, in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Hare is author of numerous articles on William James and American philosophy. His publications include
Evil and the Concept of God (1968) and Doing Philosophy Historically (Prometheus, 1988). Since 1974, Hare has been editor of the
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.
Jacquelyn Kegley
Jacquelyn Kegley is author of Genuine Individuals and Genuine
Communities:
A Roycean Public Philosophy (Vanderbilt University Press, 1997). She is Professor of Philosophy at
California State University, Bakersfield. In addition to her interests in American
philosophy, Kegley also publishes in
philosophy of science and bioethics. Currently, she serves on the executive committee of the Society
for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
James T. Kloppenberg
James T. Kloppenberg is Harvard College Professor and David Woods Kemper
'41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, with central interests in American democratic
theory and practice. His publications include
The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998); A Companion to American Thought
(Blackwell, 1995), edited with Richard Wightman Fox; and
Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought 1870-1920
(Oxford University, 1986).
Felicitas Kraemer
Felicitas Kraemer teaches in the Institute for Science and Technology Studies and the Department of
Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. She is author of Erfahrungsvielfalt und
Wirklichkeit: Zu William James' Realitätsverständnis (Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2006). Kraemer was guest editor of the "Special Issue on European Perspectives on
The Varieties of Religious Experience" for
Streams of William James (vol. 5, no. 2, Spring 2003).
David Lamberth
David Lamberth is the author of William James and the Metaphysics of
Experience
(Cambridge, 1999) and a number of articles on James, pragmatism, and religion. He is Associate Professor
of Theology at Harvard Divinity School and teaches modern religious thought, theology, and philosophy of
religion. Lamberth is currently the
vice president of the William James Society.
John Lachs
John Lachs has written on the relevance of philosophy to life, including
A Community of Individuals (Routlege, 2002) and In Love with Life (Vanderbilt University
Press, 1998). Most recently, he published
On Santayana (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006). Lachs is Centennial Professor in the
philosophy department at Vanderbilt University, and the current president of the William James Society.
John J. McDermott
John J. McDermott has edited The Writings of William James:
A Comprehensive Edition (Random House, 1967),
The Writings of Josiah Royce (University of Chicago, 1969; Fordham, 2005),
The Philosophy of John Dewey (Putnam, 1973); was general editor of
The Correspondence of William James (University of Virginia,
1992-2004); and, in addition, has published on a wide range of subjects. McDermott has served as
president of the Royce Society,
the William James Society, and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
He is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M.
Frank Oppenheim
Frank Oppenheim has written extensively on Josiah Royce, including his
recent magnum opus,
Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah
Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey (University of Notre Dame, 2005). Oppenheim is
Research Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University.
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam is Cogan University
Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Among his wide-ranging
philosophical contributions, Putnam has developed the idea of "internal realism" or "pragmatic realism." His
publications
include Ethics Without Ontology (Harvard University Press, 2004) and Pragmatism: An Open
Question (Blackwell, 1995).
Robert Richardson
Robert Richardson is author of the recently
published William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), and has also
written Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (University of California, 1986) and
Emerson: The Mind on Fire (University of California, 1995). Before becoming an independent scholar,
Richardson taught English at various universities, including
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yale University, Wesleyan University, and
the University of Denver.
Sandra Rosenthal
Sandra Rosenthal is Provost Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
Loyola University in New Orleans. Her most recent book,
C. I. Lewis in Focus: The Pulse of Pragmatism, is due out this spring. She is also the author of
Speculative Pragmatism, Time, Continuity and Indeterminacy: A Pragmatic Engagement
with Contemporary Perspectives (University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), and
Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Pluralism (State University of New York Press, 1994). Rosenthal is a
past president of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Linda Simon
Linda Simon has written biographies of a number of intellectual figures,
including
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt Brace, 1998), and edited
William James Remembered (University of Nebraska Press, 1996), a collection of reminiscences by
family, friends, and colleagues of James. Simon is Professor of English at Skidmore College, and a past
president of the William James Society.
Chris Skowronski
Chris Skowronski teaches at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology,
Opole University, Poland.
He has published numerous articles in English, Polish, and Spanish on American
Philosophy. Skowronski is the author of Santayana and America: Values,
Liberties, Responsiblity (Cambridge Scholars, forthcoming 2007) and editor
of Under Whatever Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (Cambridge
Scholars, forthcoming 2007).
Ignas Skrupskelis
Ignas Skrupskelis served as editor for the definitive editions of
James's writings and correspondence, The Works of William James (Harvard, 1975-88) and
The Correspondence of William James (University Press of Virginia, 1992-2004). He is Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy,
Emeritus, at the University of South Carolina.
H.
Standish Thayer
H. Standish Thayer is Professor of
Philosophy, Emeritus, at City College, City University of New York. Thayer's publications on pragmatism extend from
The Logic of Pragmatism: An Examination of John Dewey's Logic (Humanities Press, 1952) through
Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism (Hackett, 1981) to
Pragmatism, the Classic Writings: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,
Clarence Irving Lewis, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead (Hackett, 1982). Thayer has also been on the editorial board of the
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society since 1974 as well as on the advisory boards for the correspondence of both William James and John Dewey.
Cornel West
Cornel West is Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion and former
director of the Program in African American Studies at Princeton, as well as a former University Professor at Harvard. Among his many
publications are Democracy Matters (Penguin, 2004), Race Matters (Beacon, 1993), and
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
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