Fashionable Nihilism -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. Nihilistic Consequences of Analytic Philosophy -- 2. "The Ph.D. Octopus": William James's Prophetic Grasp of the Failures of Academic Professionalism -- 3. The Pluralist Rebellion in the American Philosophical Association -- 4. Phenomenology in the United States -- 5. Nature or Nurture?: The Significance of Indigenous Thought -- 6. Conceptual Problems in Grasping Genocide -- 7. Henry Bugbee: Philosopher of Intimacy -- 8. William James on the "Spiritual" -- 9. Looking for Bek -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.