All American Pragmatism Articles
Experience Nature and Art
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2026
Experience Nature and Art John Dewey Experience and Nature (1925) Download PDF Experience Nature and Art (1925) by John Dewey Experience, Nature and Art(1925) by John Dewey explores the relationship between human experience, the natural world, and artistic expression, arguing that art is not separate from everyday life but emerges from the same processes that … Read more
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy
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2026
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy John Dewey (1917) Download PDF The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy (1917) by John Dewey I Intellectual advance occurs in two ways. At times increase of knowledge is organized about old conceptions, while these are expanded, elaborated and refined, but not seriously revised, much less abandoned. At … Read more
Privilege, Malice, and Intent
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2026
Privilege, Malice, and Intent Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law – 1881 Download PDF Privilege, Malice, and Intent (1881) by Oliver Wendell Holmes The next subjects to be considered are fraud, malice, and intent. In the discussion of unintentional wrongs, the greatest difficulty to be overcome was found to be the doctrine that a man … Read more
Ideals and Doubts
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2026
Ideals and Doubts Oliver Wendell Holmes Illinois Law Review – 1915 Download PDF Ideals and Doubts (1915) by Oliver Wendell Holmes For the last thirty years we have been preoccupied with the embryology of legal ideas; and explanations, which, when I was in college, meant a reference to final causes, later came to mean tracing … Read more
Natural Law
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2026
Natural Law Oliver Wendell Holmes The Harvard Law Review – 1918 Download PDF Natural Law (1918) by Oliver Wendell Holmes It is not enough for the knight of romance that you agree that his lady is a very nice girl—if you do not admit that she is the best that God ever made or will … Read more
Trespass and Negligence
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2026
Trespass and Negligence Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law – 1881 Download PDF Trespass and Negligence (1881) by Oliver Wendell Holmes The object of the next two Lectures is to discover whether there is any common ground at the bottom of all liability in tort, and if so, what that ground is. Supposing the attempt … Read more
Early Forms of Liability
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2026
Early Forms of Liability Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law – 1881 Download PDF Early Forms of Liability (1881) by Oliver Wendell Holmes The object of this book is to present a general view of the Common Law. To accomplish the task, other tools are needed besides logic. It is something to show that the … Read more
Theories of Knowledge
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2026
Theories of Knowledge John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916) Download PDF Theories of Knowledge (1916) by John Dewey 1. Continuity versus Dualism. A number of theories of knowing have been criticized in the previous pages. In spite of their differences from one another, they all agree in one fundamental respect which contrasts with the theory which … Read more
The Mechanism of Social Consciousness
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2026
The Mechanism of Social Consciousness George Herbert Mead 1912 Download PDF The Mechanism of Social Consciousness (1912) by George Herbert Mead The organization of consciousness may be regarded from the standpoint of its objects and the relation of these objects to conduct. I have in mind to present somewhat schematically the relation of social objects … Read more
A Function of the Social Settlement
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2026
A Function of the Social Settlement Jane Addams A Function of the Social Settlement – 1899 Download PDF A Function of the Social Settlement (1899) by Jane Addams The word ‘‘settlement,’’ which we have borrowed from London, is apt to grate a little upon American ears. It is not, after all, so long ago that … Read more