John Robert Shook
Vice President for Research and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Inquiry Transnational
Research Associate in Philosophy, Philosophy Department,
University at Buffalo, New York
Education
Academic Positions
Books Authored Pragmatism: An
Annotated Bibliography, 1898-1940. With contributions by E. Paul Colella, Lesley
Friedman, Frank X. Ryan, and Ignas K. Skrupskelis. Value Inquiry Book Series, No. 66.
Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1998. xxx +
615pp. Dewey’s Empirical
Theory of Knowledge and Reality. Nashville, Tenn.:
Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. x
+ 316pp. Os Pioneiros do Pragmatismo Americano (The Pioneers of American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, Dewey). Translated into Portuguese by Fabio M. Said. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: DP&A Editora, 2003. 215pp. This book has also been translated in Turkish by Celal Türer as Amerikan Pragmatizminin Öncüleri. Istanbul: Üniversite Kitabevi, 2003. 178pp. John Dewey’s Philosophy of Spirit, with Dewey’s 1897 lectures on Hegel. With James A. Good. Fordham University Press, forthcoming in 2008. Books Edited Editor, Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. General Editor, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 4 vols. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. Also authored over 160 entries. Co-editor with Joseph Margolis, A Companion to Pragmatism. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006. Co-editor with Scott Gelfand, Ectogenesis: Artificial Womb Technology and the Future of Human Reproduction. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2006. Co-editor with Hugh McDonald, F. C. S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism: Selected Writings, 1891–1939, forthcoming with Prometheus Books in 2008. Co-editor with Paul Kurtz, The Future of Naturalism: New Essays, forthcoming with Prometheus Books in 2009. General Editor, Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, 2 vols., forthcoming with Continuum in 2010. Book Series Edited General Editor of the Pragmatism in American Thought series,
published first by Thoemmes Press and then by Thoemmes Continuum. The sets in this series are: Editor of Studies in Pragmatism and Values,
a special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series, published by Rodopi. Books published or
forthcoming: Journals Edited Contemporary Pragmatism, published by Editions Rodopi since 2004. Co-editor with Mitchell Aboulafia, Judith Green, and Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. The Pluralist, published by University of Illinois Press since 2006. Co-editor with Randall Auxier and Scott Gelfand. Other Editorial Positions Free Inquiry, published by the Council for Secular Humanism: Associate Editor (2006- ). Philo: A Journal of Philosophy, published by the Center for Inquiry: Editorial Board (2006- ). Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Consulting Editor (2000- ). William James Studies: Editorial Board (2005- ). Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education: Associate Editor, (2000- ). Value Inquiry Book Series, published by Editions Rodopi. Associate Editor and Editor for Electronic Publishing (1998-2006); Deputy Executive Director (2002-2006). Streams of William James: Managing Editor (2002-2004). Business and Professional Ethics Journal. Editorial Assistant (1988-1990). Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “John Dewey and Edward Scribner Ames: Partners in Religious Naturalism.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy v.28 n.2 (May 2007): 178-207. “Dewey’s Empirical Naturalism and Pragmatic Metaphysics.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.40 n.4 (Fall 2004): 731-742. “Jonathan Edwards’ Contribution to John Dewey’s Theory of Moral Responsibility.” History of Philosophy Quarterly v.21 n.3 (July 2004): 299-312. “Dewey’s Rejection of Retributivism and His Moral-Education Theory of Punishment.” Journal of Social Philosophy v.35 n.1 (Spring 2004): 66-78. “The
Direct Contextual Realist Theory of Perception.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy
v. 17 n.4 (2003): 245-258. “The Possibility of an Empiricist Naturalism: Dewey and Santayana.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society no. 21 (Fall 2003): 1-7. “Entrepreneurship and Values in a Democratic and Pragmatic Economics.” Journal of Economic Methodology v.10 n.2 (June 2003): 181-190. “Addison W. Moore’s Pragmatic Approach to Religion and Immortality.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.38 n.4 (Fall 2002): 629-641. “William James and John Dewey: A Contentious Partnership.” Streams of William James v.3 n.3 (Fall 2001): 16-19. “The Revival of the Social in Philosophy.” Perspectives: The American Sociological Association Theory Section Newsletter v.24 n.4 (October 2001): 1-3, 5, 7-8. “William James and John Dewey: A Common Vision.” Streams of William James v.2 n.3 (Fall 2000): 5-7. “Wilhelm Wundt’s Contribution to John Dewey’s Functional Psychology.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences v.31 n.4 (October 1995): 347-369. “John Dewey’s Struggle with American Realism, 1904-1910.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.31 n.3 (Summer 1995): 542-566. Popular Magazine Articles “Why Democracy Needs Naturalism.” Free Inquiry v.27 n.5 (August/September 2007): 45-47. “The Responsibilities of Being an Atheist.” Free Inquiry v.27 n.4 (June/July 2007): 55-56. “Where’s the Meaning in a Natural World?” Free Inquiry v.27 n.3 (April/May 2007): 39-40. “Can Psychology Be Positive About Religion?” Free Inquiry v.26 n.6 (October/November 2006): 41-42. Book Essays
“Early Responses to American Pragmatism in France: Selective
Attention and Critical Reaction.”
In The Reception of Pragmatism in France and
the Rise of Catholic Modernism, 1890–1914, ed. David G. Schultenover
(Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press), forthcoming. “God’s Justified Knowledge and the Hard-Soft Fact Distinction.” In The Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 8: Philosophy of Religion, ed. William Sweet (Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006), pp. 69-73. “F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism.” In A Companion to Pragmatism, ed. John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 44-53. “Introduction.” To The Correspondence of John Dewey, Volume 3: 1940-1953, ed. Larry Hickman (Charlottesville, Va.: Intelex, 2005). A 40,000 word introductory essay for this publication on CD-ROM. “Dewey’s Vision of Equal Opportunity for Education in a Democracy.” In Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, eds. William Lawson and Donald Koch (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), pp. 48-72. “Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas.” In Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two, eds. John Ryder and Emil Visnovsky (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 31-41. “Dewey i Peirce na temat przedmiotu wiedzy naukowej.” (Dewey and Peirce on the Object of Scientific Knowledge). Translated by Bartlomiej Swiatczak. In Filozofia Amerykanska Dzis, tom. 2: O Mysleniu Procesualnym: Charles Hartshorne i Charles Sanders Peirce, ed. Tomasz Komendzinskiego (Torun, Poland: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2003), pp. 185-200. “A Pragmatically Realistic Philosophy of Science.” In Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, ed. John R. Shook (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003), pp. 323-344. “Dewey and Quine on the Logic of What There Is.” In Dewey’s Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations, edited by Tom Burke, D. Micah Hester and Robert Talisse (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), pp. 93-118. “Der philosophische Hintergrund von Deweys pädagogische Credo.” (The Philosophical Context of Dewey’s Pedagogical Creed). Translated by Helmut Schreier. In Rekonstruktion der Schule: Das pädagogische credo des John Dewey und die heutige Erziehungspraxis, ed. Helmut Schreier (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2001), pp. 23-55. New Manuscripts, Submitted Articles, and other Works in Progress “Naturalistic Ways of Appealing to Science: The Seven Viable Varieties of Naturalism.” Under review at Philosophy of Science. “God’s Divinely Justified Knowledge is Incompatible with Human Free Will.” Under review at Religious Studies. “Comparative Political Philosophy: Categorizing Political Philosophies Using Twelve Archetypes.” Under review at Metaphilosophy. “Dewey’s Moral Justification for Public Deliberation Democracy.” Under review at Political Theory. “Bibliography of the Writings of Hilary Putnam.” In The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, a volume in the Library of Living Philosophers (Chicago: Open Court), forthcoming. Reference Work Articles, Bibliographies “Selected Bibliography of Writings on Essays in Experimental Logic.” In John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic, ed. D. Micah Hester and Robert B. Talisse (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), pp. 295-300. “Bibliography on Ectogenesis.” In Ectogenesis: Artificial Womb Technology and the Future of Human Reproduction, ed. Scott Gelfand and John Shook (Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2006), pp. 183-189. “John Dewey.” Article in Encyclopedia of Unbelief, 2nd edn., ed. Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007), pp. 259-262. “Ernest Nagel.” Article in Encyclopedia of Unbelief, 2nd edn., ed. Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007), pp. 553-554. Over 160 entries in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 4 vols., ed. John R. Shook. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. “Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott (1864-1937).” Article in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2002), vol. 2, pp. 979-983. Reprinted in Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 929-933. Articles Edited “Pragmatism and Immortality.” By Addison W. Moore. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.38 n.4 (Fall 2002): 642-647. Introductions to Edited Volumes “Introduction .” With David G. Schultenover. In The Reception of Pragmatism in France and the Rise of Catholic Modernism, 1890–1914, ed. David G. Schultenover (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press), forthcoming.“Introduction.” To The Cambridge School of Pragmatism, vol. 2: The Pragmatism of William James, ed. John Shook and Andre de Tienne (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), pp. ix-xxxii. “Introduction.” To The Cambridge School of Pragmatism, vol. 4: The Pragmatic Naturalisms of George Santayana and Clarence I. Lewis, ed. John Shook and Andre de Tienne (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), pp. ix-xxviii. “Introduction.” To Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, ed. John R. Shook (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003), pp. 7-27. “Introduction.” To The Collected Writings of Addison W. Moore, vol. 1: 1896-1910 (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003), pp. ix-xx. “Introduction.” With Kenneth Westphal. To Pragmatism and Idealism by William Caldwell, vol. 4 of The Early Critics of Pragmatism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. xii-xix. “Introduction.” To The Principles of Pragmatism by H. Heath Bawden, vol. 1 of The Early Defenders of Pragmatism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. ix-xxv. “Introduction.” To Pragmatism by David L. Murray, vol. 3 of The Early Defenders of Pragmatism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. vii-xvii. “Introduction.” To Functionalist Psychology, vol. 1 of The Chicago School of Functionalism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. xi-xxix. “Introduction.” To Studies in Logical Theory, by John Dewey et al., vol. 2 of The Chicago School of Functionalism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. vi-xxiii. “Introduction.” To The Development of Instrumentalism: Experience, Knowledge, and Reality, vol. 1 of The Chicago School of Pragmatism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000), pp. xi-xxxvi. “Introduction.” To The Development of Instrumentalism: Morality, Society, Education, and Religion, vol. 2 of The Chicago School of Pragmatism (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000), pp. ix-xix. Prefaces and Forewords “Editorial Statement.” To The Pluralist v.1 n.3 (Fall 2006): v-vi. “Editorial Foreword.” To Pragmatic Moral Realism: A Transcendental Defense, by Sami Pihlstrom (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005), p. ix. “Editorial Note.” To Contemporary Pragmatism v.1 n.1 (June 2004): 1-2. “Preface.” To Jane Addams’s Writings on Peace, vol. 1 (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003), p. vii. “Preface.” To The Collected Writings of Addison W. Moore, vol. 1: 1896-1910 (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003), pp. ix-x. “Editorial Foreword.” To Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution, edited by Guy Debrock (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003), p. vii. “Editorial Foreword.” To Conversations With Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study, by Paul Bube and Jeffrey Geller (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), p. vii. “Editorial Foreword.” To Peirce’s Pragmatism: A Dialogue for Educators, by Phyllis Chiasson (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001), pp. ix-x. “Preface.” To Library of Congress Subject Headings in Philosophy, ed. Barbara Berman (Charlottesville, Virginia: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001), pp. 3-10. “Preface.” To The Early Critics of Pragmatism, in vol. 1 (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. xii-xiii. “Preface.” To The Early Defenders of Pragmatism, in vol. 1 (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. vii-viii. “Preface.” To The Chicago School of Functionalism, in vol. 1 (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001), pp. ix-x. “Preface.” To The Chicago School of Pragmatism, in vol. 1 (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000), pp. ix-x. Book Reviews “Review of Michael Martin, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Atheism.” Philo: A Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming. “Review of Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God.” Free Inquiry v.27 n.4 (June/July 2007): 60-61. “Review of Robert Wilson, Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences - Cognition.” Review of Metaphysics v.59 n.4 (June 2006): 913-914. “Review of Richard Gale, The Philosophy of William James: An Introduction.” Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus philosophiques v.25 n.3 (June 2005): 182-184. “Review of Vincent Colapietro, Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity.” Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus philosophiques v.24 n.4 (August 2004): 247-249. “Review of Thomas Dalton, Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences v.39 n.3 (Summer 2003): 299-300. “Review of Arthur Murphy, Reason, Reality, and Speculative Philosophy, ed. Marcus Singer.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy v.14 n.4 (2000): 314-316. “Review of Casey Haskins and David Seiple, eds., Dewey Reconfigured: Essays on Deweyan Pragmatism.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.36 n.4 (Fall 2000): 579-585. “Review of Robert Roth, British Empiricism and American Pragmatism.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society v.30 n.1 (Winter 1994), pp. 213-219. Book Notices for Choice: Conference and Society Presentations “Edward S. Ames on Religious Humanism and Its Relevance for Dewey’s Naturalism.” Highlands Institute of American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Highlands, North Carolina, June 2005. “Pragmatism Caught between Church and State.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, with the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 2004. “Early Responses to American Pragmatism in France: Selective Attention and Critical Reaction.” American Academy of Religion, Nineteenth Century Theology Group meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2004. “Dewey’s Hegelianism and His Repair of the Religious/Secular Divide,” American Academy of Religion, Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 2004. “God’s Justified Knowledge and the Hard-Soft Fact Distinction.” XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003. “The Metaphysical Inquiries of Dewey and Santayana.” Santayana Society, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2002. “Democratic Deliberation, Pluralism, and Pragmatic Moral Evaluation.” Central European Pragmatism Forum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, June 2002. “Do We Have Free Will From God’s Omniscient Perspective?” Conference on “God, Free Will, and Determinism” at McMurry University, Abilene, Texas, March 2002. “Pragmatism and Realism in Philosophy of Science.” Session Presentation at the Summer Institute for American Philosophy. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, July 2001. “Responsibility and Punishment on Dewey’s Theory of Democracy.” 29th Conference on Value Inquiry. Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 2001. “Human Freedom and Its Incompatibility with Divine Omniscience.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Tennessee, February 2001. “Dewey and Quine.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting. Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2000. “An Empirical Metaphysics of Value.” Metaphysical Society of America, annual meeting. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 2000. “Dewey’s Reconstruction of the Logic of Realism.” Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 1998. “Dewey and Pragmatism.” The Second Annual NYC History of Philosophy Conference. Hunter College, New York City, May 1998. “Peirce and Dewey on Scientific Contingency.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting. University of Toronto, Ontario, March 1996. “The ‘Indirect Reciprocity’ Prisoner’s Dilemma Game.” Workshop presented at the Conference of Instructional Technologies, sponsored by SUNY Faculty Access to Computing Technology. SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, New York, May 1995. “The Problem With Truth.” Tri-State Philosophical Association. Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania, April 1993. “Morality, Indirect Reciprocity, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game.” Seventh International Computing and Philosophy Conference. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, August 1992. “Reality and Refutation: John Wisdom vs. Relativism.” Western New York-Western Pennsylvania Regional Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, April 1991. Other Invited Presentations “Pragmatism.” Summer Institute of the Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, New York, July 2006. “Arthur O. Lovejoy on ‘The Thirteen Pragmatisms’.” Midwest Study Group of Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 2004. “A Process Interpretation of Dewey’s Philosophy of Religion.” International Institute for Field-Being, XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003. “Addams and Dewey on World Peace.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy session, XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2003. “Dewey, Democracy, and the Economic Sphere of Life.” Behavioral Research Council workshop on John Dewey and
Socio-Economic Theory, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, May 2003. “Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today.” School of Education, Institute 8, Hamburg University, Germany, June 2002. “Naturalistic Realism and Scientific Relativism: A Pragmatic Reconciliation.” Keynote Address, Second Annual Donald G. Wester Philosophy Conference, Oklahoma Baptist University, May 2002. “Pragmatism and Truth: Naturalizing and Historicizing Knowledge.” Philosophy Department, Oklahoma City University, October 2001. Commentator on “Pragmatic Instrumentalism as a Truly Practical Approach to Moral Inquiry” by Donald Koch. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, annual meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2001. Commentator on “Agape Within the Limits of Reason Alone” by Sharon Sytsma. Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Tennessee, February 2001. “A Pragmatically Realistic Philosophy of Science.” State University of New York at Buffalo conference, The Future of Realism in the American Tradition of Pragmatic Naturalism. Buffalo, New York, October 2000. “The Deweyan Theory of the Moral Problem.” Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 1999. Recognitions, Awards, and Grants
Who's Who in America, 61st Edition, 2007, and subsequent editions Courses Taught at Corning Community College Introduction to Philosophy Courses Taught at Oklahoma State University Undergraduate Courses 19th and 20th Century Philosophy Early American Philosophy Recent American Philosophy Biomedical Ethics Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Graduate Courses Dissertation and Thesis Committees Jeremy W. Jordan, "Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and National
Minorities: A Study in Compatibility." Philosophy M.A. 2002. Other Professional Activities and Affiliations Director of The Pragmatism Archive at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y. Webmaster of the Value Inquiry Book Series website at www.valueinquiry.org Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Coordinator of SAAP sessions at Central APA Meetings (2001-2005); Nominating Committee (2003-2005); Executive Committee (2006-2009) William James Society. Advisory Board Member (1999-2001); Executive Committee At-Large Member (2001-2003) Josiah Royce Society. Executive Committee Member (2003-2006) Webmaster of The Pragmatism Cybrary at www.pragmatism.org Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities, Cambridge University Press, Fordham University Press, Indiana University Press, Oxford University Press, Vanderbilt University Press, Southern Illinois University Press, Westview Press, Mayfield Publishing, Longman Publishing, Prometheus Books, Broadview Press, Editions Rodopi, Choice, Inquiry, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Member,
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