Conversations with Pragmatism A Multi-Disciplinary Study x 7 7The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 90-420-1560-8 ©Editions Redopi B.V., Amsterdam — New York, NY 2002 Printed in The NetherlandsEditorial Foreword TWO THREE FOUR CONTENTS JOHN R. SHOOK vii On Conversations iv JEFFERY GELLER & PAUL CUSTODIO BUBE Autobiographical Sketch 1 A Room in the Pragmatic Hotel William James, Language, and Epistemology 3 PETER CAUFIELD Autobiographical Sketch 15 Women’s Rhetorical Style as an Alternative Vision of Democracy 17 SUSAN ROSS Autobiographical Sketch 33 “A Matter for Whispered Communications” The Bostonians, Pragmatism, and The Culture of Uncertainty 33 RICHARD CARSON Autobiographical Sketch 51 The Ethics of Dissensus: Literary Criticism in the Age of Relativism 53 LUIS E, WONG