I. Introduction
1. The Voice of Pragmatism in Contemporary Philosophy of Communication
Lenore Langsdorf and Andrew R. Smith
II. The Logic of Communication
2. Immediacy, Opposition, and Mediation: Peirce on Irreducible Aspects of the Communicative Process
Vincent M. Colapietro
3. From Enthymeme to Abduction: The Classical Law of Logic and the Postmodern Rule of Rhetoric
Richard L. Lanigan
4. On Ethnocentric Truth and Pragmatic Justice
Andrew R. Smith and Leonard Shyles
III. The Ends of Communication
5. The "Cash-Value" of Communication: An Interpretation of William James
Isaac E. Catt
6. Devising Ends Worth Striving For: William James and the Reconstruction of Philosophy
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
IV. The Process of Communication
7. John Dewey and the Roots of Democratic Imagination
Thomas M. Alexander
8. Pragmatism Reconsidered: John Dewey and Michel Foucault on the Consequences of Inquiry
Frank J. Macke
V. The Effects of Communication
9. George Herbert Mead and the Many Voices of Universality
Mitchell Aboulafia
10. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Communication: Poiesis and Praxis in Classical Pragmatism
Lenore Langsdorf
VI. Neopragmatism and Communication
11. Talking-With as a Model for Writing-About: Implications of Rortyean Pragmatism
Arthur P. Bochner and Joanne B. Waugh
12. Changing the Subject: Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
Janet S. Horne
13. Icons, Fragments, and Ironists: Richard Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism
Mick Presnell
Notes
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index