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R E V I E W S Volume 46 Number 4 659 research on the human mind and society as a badge of honor. Or worse, those Deweyans who sell unity in politics are those most likely to kick your door in when you threaten that unity. That makes them worse. They are bad monkeys. Better to sing, as Gale’s James, “The Divided Self Blues,” and thereby maintain that conflict in our philosophical natures, than to give in to one of these sides completely. My objection here aside, Gale’s book is exemplary in its style (I have endeavored to imitate it here) and in its capturing a recurrent tension in the aspirations of humanism. The tension is recurrent, I believe, because humans are conflicted themselves, and humanism reflects that. Regardless, Gale’s take on Dewey has the great systematizer of pragmatism wrestling mightily with the antinomies of our philosophical inclinations: the unification of the multiplicity and the development of tools for coping with heterogeneity. Such a scramble, Dewey promises , should yield a synthesis. Gale is right that it doesn’t, but his own principled story of Dewey’s failure is an achievement worth noting. That Dewey’s project is taken to fail will be taken by too many as evidence that Gale has misunderstood Dewey (as a good deal of scholarship seems to function on the principle that to criticize one of the Great Pragmatists is to misunderstand Him), but it would be a mistake. Gale is a judicious and sympathetic interpreter of Dewey, and he is careful not to erect a straw man for criticism. Vindications of the Deweyan program in aesthetics, epistemology, politics, or metaphysics must now answer Gale’s challenge. Scott F. Aikin Vanderbilt University scott.aikin@vanderbilt.edu Index—Vol. XLVI (2010) Agler, David W. “Peirce’s Direct, Non-Reductive Contextual Theory of Names,” 611–640. Aikin, Scott F. Review of Richard Gale, John Dewey’s Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic, 650–659. Alexander, Thomas. “The Being of Nature: Dewey, Buchler, and the Prospect for an Eco-Ontology,” 544–569. Atkins, Richard Kenneth. “An ‘Entirely Different Set of Categories’: Peirce’s Material Categories,” 94–110. Burch, Robert W. “Royce, Boolean Rings, and theT-Relation,” 221–241. ———. “If Universes Were as Plenty as Blackberries: Peirce on Induction and Verisimilitude,” 423–452. Campos, Daniel. Review of Charles S. Peirce & Sara Barrena (ed. and trans.), El Pragmatismo, 512-516. R E V I E W S Volume 46 Number 4 660 Colapietro, Vincent. “Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone is Thrown?” 9–20. Corcoran, John. “Peter Hare on the Proposition,” 21–34. Crippen, Matthew. “William James on Belief: Turning Darwinism against Empiricistic Skepticism,” 477–502. Crouch, J. Brent. “Between Frege and Peirce: Josiah Royce’s Structural Logicism,” 155–177. Deen, Phillip. “Dialectical vs. Experimental Method: Marcuse’s Review of Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry,” 242–257. ———, translator. “Herbert Marcuse’s ‘Review of John Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry’,” 258–265. Eldridge, Michael. Review of Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy, 508–511. Fischer, Marilyn. “Cracks in the Inexorable: Bourne and Addams on Pacifists during Wartime,” 282–299. Frega, Roberto. “From Judgment to Rationality: Dewey’s Epistemology of Practice,” 591–610. Girel, Matthias. Review of Stéphane Madelrieux, William James, L’attitude empiriste, 503–507. Hoffmann, Michael H. G. “‘Theoric Transformations’ and a New Classification of Abductive Inferences,” 570–590. Howat, Andrew. Review of David S. Clarke, Some Pragmatist Themes, 143–148. Kaag, John. “Everyday Ethics: Morality and the Imagination in Classical American Thought,” 364–385. Johnston, Scott. “Dewey’s ‘Naturalized Hegelianism’ in Operation: Experimental Inquiry as Self-Consciousness,” 453–476. Koepsell, David. “Peter Hare and the Problem of Evil,” 53–59. Kovalainen, Heikki A. Review of Arthur S. Lothstein & Michael Brodrick (eds.), New Morning: Emerson in the Twenty-first Century, 650–655. Kruse, Felicia E. “Peirce, God, and the ‘Transcendentalist Virus’,” 386– 400. Lachs, John. “Grieving a Consummate Professional,” 78–81. Margolis, Joseph. “A Word of Thanks for Peter Hare’s Patience,” 3–8. Mayorga, Rosa. Review of Antonio Armas Vázquez, El Pragmatismo en Cuba, 327–336...

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