PART I. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS
Early American philosophy / John Ryder
Idealism in American thought / Douglas Anderson
The first pragmatists / Joseph Margolis
Naturalism / Michael Eldridge
PART II. MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
C.S. Peirce, 1839-1914 / Vincent Colapietro
William James, 1842-1910 / William J. Gavin
Josiah Royce, 1855-1916 / Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ
George Santayana, 1863-1952 / Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.
John Dewey, 1859-1952 / Larry A. Hickman
George Herbert Mead, 1863-1931 / Mitchell Aboulafia
Jane Addams, 1860-1935 / Charlene Haddock Seigfried
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 / Shannon Sullivan
Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 / John W. Lango
C.I. Lewis, 1883-1964 / Sandra B. Rosenthal
Suzanne K. Langer, 1895-1985 / Richard E. Hart
Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000 / Peter T. Manicas
Alain L. Locke, 1885-1953 / Leonard Harris
Justus Buchler, 1914-1991 / Kathleen Wallace
PART III. MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
Community and democracy / James Campbell
Knowledge and action: American epistemology / Scott L. Pratt
Religion / William D. Dean
Education / Nicholas C. Burbules ... [et al.]
Art and the aesthetic / Armen T. Marsoobian
Epilogue: The renascence of classical American philosophy / John J. McDermott.