PRAGMATISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY: A PHILOSOPHIC ENCOUNTER -- Title page -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- BOOK I. AMERICAN PRAGMATISM -- CHAPTER I. BASIC ORIENTATIONS OF PRAGMATISM -- A. INTRODUCTION -- 1. The need for dialogue -- 2. The classical pragmatists -- 3. Towards philosophic encounter -- B. THE REACTION AGAINST ESTABLISHED TRENDS -- 1. The significance of the Principles -- 2. Empiricism and empirical psychology -- 3. Beyond "dualism or reductionism" -- 4. The rejection of the spectator -- C. METHOD -- 1. The significance of scientific method -- 2. Scientific method and lived experience -- 3. A look at terminology -- 4. Beyond "realism or idealism" -- 5. Scientific method and philosophy -- D. EXPERIENCE -- 1. Converging aspects -- 2. A fundamental difference -- CHAPTER II. THE CONTENT OF EXPERIENCE -- A. GENERAL CONTEXT -- B. SENSATION AND PERCEPTION -- 1. Convergent perspectives -- 2. Belief, doubt and "felt datum" -- 3. Behavior and the perceived world -- 4. Temporality -- 5. Beyond "realism, idealism, or phenomenalism" -- C. SENSATION, PERCEPTION AND IMMEDIACY -- 1. A methodological difference -- 2. Pre-analytic and post-analytic data -- 3. Experience and its conten -- 4. Beyond assimilation -- D. THE POSITIVIST ALTERNATIVE -- CHAPTER III. THE A PRIORI -- A. PRAGMATISM AND THE TESTABLE A PRIORI -- 1. FROM JAMES TO LEWIS -- B. BEYOND RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM -- 1. The diversity of "empiricisms'' -- 2. A unique "empiricism" -- 3. James and Lewis - another perspective -- 4. Dewey - a related problem -- 5. Dewey and Lewis - an alternative synthesis -- 6. The "pragmatic a priori" -- C. THE A PRIORI AND OBJECTIVITY -- 1. The a priori and lived experience -- 2. A triadic relationship -- 3. Appearance and object -- 4. The unifying f actor -- 5. A structural reciprocity -- 6. The inadequacy of reductive analyses.

D. THE A PRIORI AND ANALYTICITY -- 1. From synthetic to analytic -- 2. The role of creativity -- E.THE EXISTENTIAL A PRIORI -- 1. A terminological problem -- 2. Fundamental issues -- F. THE A PRIORI AND THE INDEPENDENTLY REAL -- 1. The "pragmatic a priori" - a second coerciveness -- 2. The Kantian interpretation -- 3. The coerciveness of the independent -- 4. The path to metaphysics -- CHAPTER IV. THE DRIVE TOWARDS METAPHYSICS -- A. THE POINT OF DEPARTURE -- 1. Metaphysics as description -- 2. Descriptive vs. oracular metaphysics -- 3. The unique pragmatic path -- 4. The three-fold distinction -- B. PEIRCE'S PHENOMENOLOGY - THE ANTI-PHENOMENOLOGICALTWIST -- 1. The function of the phaneron -- 2. The nature of the metaphysical categories -- 3. An attempt at the impossible*} -- C. TOWARDS A DISTINCTIVE METAPHYSICS OF PRAGMATISM -- 1. The pervasive features of the independently real -- 2. Pragmatism and "process realism" -- 3. A reciprocal unity -- BOOK II. PHENOMENOLOGY -- CHAPTER I. BASIC ORIENTATION INTO PHENOMENOLOGY -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. REACTIONS AGAINST ESTABLISHED TRENDS -- 1. Husserl's rejection of psychologism and naturalism -- 2. Merleau-Ponty: Reactions against certain trends -- 3. Naturalism and reductionism -- C. PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD -- 1. Significance of adequate method -- 2. Basic elements -- CHAPTER II. EXPERIENCE AND ITS CONTENT -- A. GENERAL CONTEXT -- 1. Level of experience and of phenomena -- 2. Originary level and Merleau-Ponty -- B. SENSATION AND PERCEPTION13 -- 1. Behavior -- 2. Perception, sensation and the body -- 3. Sensation: beyond "idealism or realism" -- 4. Temporality and percep tual syn thesis -- 5. The world as perceived46 -- 6. "In-itself-for-itself": realism and idealism reconsidered -- CHAPTER III. EXPERIENCE AND THE A PRIORI -- A. PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE A PRIORI.

1. The a priori: various positions -- 2. Experience and the a priori -- 3. Away from the etherial transcendental -- B. BEYOND "RATIONALISM OR EMPIRICISM" -- C. MEANING AND OBJECTIVITY -- CHAPTER IV.THROUGH PHENOMENOLOGY TO BEING -- A. POINT OF DEPARTURE -- 1. Divergent ontologies -- 2. Phenomenology and transcendental idealism -- B. THE STATUS OF THE PHENOMENON -- C. FROM PHENOMENOLOHY TO METAPHYSICS -- 1. Perceptual faith and the really real -- 2. Threefold openness of the appearance of being -- D. BEYOND REALISM AND IDEALISM -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX.