On James / Robert B. Talisse, D. Micah Hester.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-94).

Developed his pragmatic epistemology, which considers the meaning of ideas and the truth of beliefs not abstractly, but in terms of the practical difference they can make in people's lives. Explored the implications of this theory in areas of religious beliefs, metaphysics, human freedom and moral values, and social philosphy. His contributions in these areas included critiques of long-standing philosophical position on such issues as freedom vs. determinism, correspondence vs. coherence, and dualism vs. materialism, as well thorough analysis of a phenomenological understanding of the self and consciousness, or a " forward-loking" conception of truth, a thorough-going metaphysical pluralism, and a commitment to a full view of agency in connection with communal and social concerns.