Expressivism and pragmatism -- Chance vistas and sincerity in the cosmic labyrinth -- Philosophies as fashions -- Does philosophy progress?: criticism without critique -- Convergence and difference: immanent pluralism -- It's all relative: beyond absolutism and nihilism -- Expressions of nature: refashioning the Hudson River School -- Old ideals crumble: war and the limits of philosophy -- Democracy as public experiment: beyond mission accomplished and mission impossible -- A terrible love of hope: toward peace before death -- Absurd pragmatism -- The spring collection: intermedia moralia; or, a romance of our incoherence
