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Henrik Rydenfelt
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00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Publications

• Nordic Studies in Pragmatism
• Publications in print
• Draft papers

Nordic Studies in Pragmatism

The Nordic Pragmatism Network publishes its own online book series. Please visit the series website (opens in a new tab).

Printed Publications

Symposium in Metaphilosophy (2011)

A small symposium of three papers presented at the Second Nordic Pragmatism Conference will appear in the journal Metaphilosophy in late 2011. The authors are Robert B. Talisse, Henrik Rydenfelt and David Hildebrand.

Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism (2011)

A volume collecting together papers presented at the Nordic Pragmatism Workshop on naturalism will be published with Peter Lang in 2011. The editors are Jonathan Knowles and Henrik Rydenfelt.

Pragmatist Perspectives (2009)

A collection of papers presented at the First Nordic Pragmatism Conference has been published in the series Acta Philosophica Fennica in 2009. The volume is edited by Sami Pihlström and Henrik Rydenfelt. View the Table of Contents and Preface (pdf).

Draft papers

These draft papers have been presented at events arranged by the Nordic Pragmatism Network and related connections. Links to the same material can also be found in the programmes for past events.

Bergman, Mats

• Peirce and Meliorism (pdf)

Brigandt, Ingo

• Natural Kinds and Concepts (pdf)

Grube, Dirk-Martin

• William James’ ‘The Will to Believe’: A Contribution to the Theory of Decision-Making rather than to the Theory of Truth (pdf)

Gustafsson, Martin

• Roots of Rortian Pragmatism (pdf)

Herrmann, Eberhard

• On Religion, Truth, Morality and Meaning (pdf)

Hickman, Larry

• Truth Deflationism and Classical Pragmatism (pdf)

Hildebrand, David

• Pragmatic Democracy: Inquiry, Objectivity, and Experience (pdf)

Hookway, Christopher

• Habits and Interpretation: Defending the Pragmatism Maxim (pdf)
• "The Form of a Relation”: Peirce and Mathematical Structuralism (pdf)
• Normative Logic and Psychology: Peirce on Dewey (pdf)

Kilpinen, Erkki

• Problems in Applying Peirce in Social Sciences (pdf)
• Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Action (pdf)

Knowles, Jonathan

• Naturalism, Pragmatism and the Retreat from Metaphysics: Scientific versus Subject Naturalism (pdf)

Koskinen, Heikki J.

• Language, Science, and the Nature of Metaphysical Knowledge (pdf)

Lehtonen, Tommi

• Implicaturism: A New View of the Pragmatics of Religious Language (pdf)

Ólafsson, Jón

• Dewey and Radical Action (pdf)

Papineau, David

• The Poverty of Analysis (pdf)

Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko

• Peirce's Development of the Quantification Theory (pdf)

Pihlström, Sami

• Nordic Pragmatism (pdf)
• Pragmatic Aspects of Kantian Theism (pdf)
• Pragmatic Metaphysics of the Fact-Value Entanglement (pdf)
• Contingency, Democracy, and the Human Sciences: Some Challenges (pdf)

Price, Huw

• Two Readings of Representationalism (pdf)

Proudfoot, Wayne

• Description and Critical Reflection in James on Religion (pdf)

Ramberg, Bjørn

• Pragmatism and Subjectivity (pdf)

Rydenfelt, Henrik

• William James on Self-Verifying Beliefs (pdf)
• Pragmatism and the Aims of Inquiry (pdf)
• Meaning and Pragmatism (pdf)
• Pragmatism as a Guard against Make-Believe (pdf)

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock

• James’s Anti-dogmatism in the Defense of Religious Belief (pdf)

Sinclair, Robert

• Anthropocentric Naturalism (pdf)
• Dewey, Nagel, and the Challenges of American Naturalism (pdf)

Welchman, Jennifer

• Pragmatism and the Value of Nature (pdf)

Woods, David

• Renewing the Pragmatist Roots of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy: Dewey, Mead and Park (pdf)

Zackariasson, Ulf

• Ethics and Pragmatic Ethics of Belief (pdf)