In view of an upcoming local discussion of pragmatism, I've organized some of my material on the subject:
Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (sans annotations) http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pragmabib.html
Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pragmabib-a.html
The Ins and Outs of Lloyd's 'Left Out' http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/leftout.html
Note that the bibliography is not an attempt to cover the subject. It is an assemblage of interesting sources on pragmatism, consisting mostly of contemporary reviews and revivals of pragmatism, historical critiques, and newer and older Marxist critiques.
The bibliography exists in two versions--plain and annotated, with cross-linkages between the two.
My web page on 'Left Out" consists of:
(a) R. Dumain's review of (a) Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922 by Brian Lloyd,
(b) R. Dumain's review of John Ryder's book review
(c) additional remarks on pragmatism in reaction to Ryder.
I have an additional electronic pile of unorganized scribblings on pragmatism I should attempt to organize. This last item (c) gives a foretaste of why I consider "pragmatism" an unsatisfactory allegiance for scientific realists and materialists. While some friends of mine who also claim to be pragmatists adhere also to a realist position, I have never been able to understand the justification for this. So perhaps some scientific realist minded individuals could assemble some ideas on what is distinctive in pragmatism that matters to them that is not already presupposed in the realist/materialist perspective.
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