
The Pluralist
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Official Journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
The Pluralist is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the ends of philosophical thought and dialogue in all widely used philosophical methodologies, including non-Western methods and those of traditional cultures. The journal upholds the Socratic dictum of self-knowledge and the love of wisdom as the purpose of philosophy. It seeks to express philosophical insights and concerns humanely and with an eye to literary as well as philosophical excellence, but technical papers are welcome. The Pluralist is a forum for discussion of diverse philosophical standpoints and pluralism's merits. The Pluralist considers high-quality submissions on any philosophical topic written from any philosophical perspective. Articles that defend some type of pluralism, apply a pluralistic perspective to contemporary issues, or take a critical stance against pluralism are encouraged.
The Pluralist is the official journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. In addition to research articles, The Pluralist also includes highlights from the SAAP annual meeting, Presidential addresses, Founders' addresses, and other Society-related information.
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Editor
Roger Ward
Philosophy Department
Georgetown College
400 East College Street
30 Pawling Hall
Georgetown, KY 40324
Roger_Ward@georgetowncollege.edu
Associate Editor
Sunny Williams
University of Texas at Dallas
Sunshine.Williams@UTDallas.edu
Book Review Editor
Aaron P. Shepherd
Department of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854
Aaron_Shepherd@uml.edu
Editorial Board
- Douglas Anderson, University of North Texas
- Richard Beauchamp, Christopher Newport University
- Richard J. Bernstein, New School University
- Nancy Cartwright, University of California, San Diego and London School of Economics
- John B. Cobb, Jr., Claremont Graduate University
- Ralph D. Ellis, Clark Atlanta University
- Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
- Pete A. Y. Gunter, University of North Texas
- Richard E. Hart, Bloomfield College
- Hans Joas, University of Chicago & Universität Erfurt
- Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University
- John Lachs, Vanderbilt University
- Lorraine Landry, Oklahoma State University
- James McLachlan, Western Carolina University
- Sandra D. Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
- Robert C. Neville, Boston University
- Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University
- Richard Prust, St. Andrews Presbyterian College
- Eric Reitan, Oklahoma State University
- Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
- Michael Slote, University of Miami
- Kenneth Stikkers, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Mark Timmons, University of Arizona
- Donald Philip Verene, Emory University
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Featured Articles
Jazz and Philosophical Contrapunteo: Philosophies of La Vida in the Americas on Behalf of Radical Democracy
Gregory Fernando Pappas
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.1.0001
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/784085
Transformative Hospitality: A Pragmatist-Feminist Perspective of Radical Welcome as Resistance
Tess Varner
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.1.0041
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/784087
Spirits and the Limits of Pragmatism: A Response to "Against Discursive Colonialism"
Scott L. Pratt
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.1.0075
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/784090
Introduction to the Symposium
Kevin J. Harrelson
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0001
Penning Dissent: The Methodological and Historiographic Motivations behind the Writing of Another white Man's Burden
Tommy J. Curry
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0010
The Good Royce and the Bad Royce, Or, Is Saving Royce from Himself Worth It?
Dwayne A. Tunstall
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0022
Personal Reflections on Studying Royce after Curry
Daniel J. Brunson
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0030
White Imagination in Search of a Canon
Kevin J. Harrelson
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0039
Is Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty Another white Man's Burden?
Myron Moses Jackson
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0059
Hayti Was the Measure: Anti-Black Racism and the Echoes of Empire in Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty
Tommy J. Curry
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0073
Some Comments on Roger Ward's Peirce and Religion
Michael L. Raposa
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0105
Ward's Teleological Suspension of Philosophy in Peirce and Religion
Dwayne A. Tunstall
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0114
For Love of the Game: Pragmatism and the Right to Play with Heterodoxy
Benjamin J. Chicka
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0118
Response to Tunstall, Chicka, and Raposa
Roger Ward
https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.16.2.0127
Florence Kelley: Pragmatist, Feminist, Socialist
Judy D. Whipps
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/882449
Decolonial Movidas: María Lugones's Notion of Decolonial Aesthesis through Cosmologies
Denise Meda Calderon
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/882450
Sodalism as Open Worldview: Conspiring to Dismantle the White Franchise
Sunny Heenen
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/882451
(Mis)Trust and Pragmatism as Grounded Normativity
Scott L. Pratt
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/882452