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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life. Desley Deacon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 520 pp.

I. Introduction -- II. Causality and Necessity -- III. Human Agency -- IV. Sensing and Objective Reference -- V. Substance and the Mind-Body Relation -- VI. Propositions, Truth and Signs -- VII. Ethics and Education -- VIII. Aesthetics -- IX. Ethics of Belief -- X. Philosophy of Religion -- XI. Paranormal Phenomena -- XII. Meta-philosophy -- Bibliography of the Writings of C. J. Ducasse -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown? -- Autobiographical Occasions -- A Brief Autobiography -- Editing American Philosophy -- Reflections on the Career of John J. McDermott -- PART I. THE ETHICS OF BELIEF -- 1 The Right and Duty to Will to Believe -- 2 William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief -- 3 Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief -- PART II. REFLECTIONS ON CLASSICAL PRAGMATISM -- 4 A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality -- 5 In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society -- 6 The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism -- PART III. NATURALISM, HOLISM, CONTEXTUALISM -- 7 Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics -- 8 Thickening Holistic Pragmatism -- PART IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION -- 9 On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil -- 10 Religion and Analytic Naturalism -- 11 Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology -- PART V. PHILOSOPHY PAST AND FUTURE -- 12 Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism -- 13 The Future of American Philosophy -- PART VI. POETRY -- 14 What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism -- 15 Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss -- 16 Deep Conceptual Play in William James -- PART VII. SOCIAL CRITIQUE -- 17 Reflections on Civil Disobedience -- 18 The American Mind -- 19 The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems -- 20 Values of the American Intellectual Class -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.