Khalil - Dewey, pragmatism, and economic methodology

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty, New School University. He specializes in the study of American pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and critical theory. His most recent books include The New Constellation: The EthicalPolitical Horizons ofModernity/Postmodernity (MIT Press, 1991), Hannah Arendt and the JewishQuestion (1996), Freud and the Vexed Legacy of Moses (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (Polity Press, 2002).

Peter J. Boettke is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Prior to joining GMU, Boettke taught at New York University and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years,19181928 (Kluwer Academic, 1990), Why Perestroika Failed (Routledge, 1993), and Calculation and Coordination (Routledge, 2001). He is the co-author of The Economic Way of Thinking (Prentice Hall, 2002).

Tom Burke is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Deweys Logical Theory:New Studies and Interpretations (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002) and is author of Deweys New Logic: A Reply to Russell (University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Vincent Colapietro is Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. His current projects include the study of psyches and their vicissitudes, and the relation between pragmatism and psychoanalysis. His recent publications include The Speculative Reconsidered (Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2002), Robust Realism and Real Externality: The Complex Commitments of a Convinced Pragmaticist (Semiotica, 2000), Lets All Go To The Movies: Two Thumbs Up for Hugo Munsterbergs The Photoplay (1916) (Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society, 2000), and FatefulShapes of Human Freedom (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003).

Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of many books, including: Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967; and a 30th anniversary edition, Harvard University Press 1997); The Living Temple:George Herbert and Catechizing (University of California Press, 1978); IsThere a Text in This Class? Interpretive Communities and the Sources ofAuthority (Harvard University Press, 1980); Theres No Such Thing as FreeSpeech, and Its a Good Thing, Too (Oxford University Press, 1994); TheTrouble with Principle (Harvard University Press, 1999); and How MiltonWorks (Harvard University Press, 2001). The Stanley Fish Reader, edited by H. Aram Veeser, was published by Blackwell in 1999.

D. Wade Hands is Professor of Economics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. He has published widely on various topics in the history of economic thought and economic methodology. His most recent book is