Accompanying slides to Jeff Carreira’s talk with parts of the talk on YouTube

1. During Times of Crisis Philosophy is Not a Luxury A Talk by Jeff Carreira

2. Nature Mystics & Scientific Progressives The Meandering Path of American Philosophy Accompanying slides to Jeff Carreira’s talk: During Times of Crisis Philosophy is Not a Luxury

3. Nature Mysticism (Transcendentalism: using experience to discover truth) Scientific Progressivism (Pragmatism: using ideas to create truth) Utilitarian Utopianism

4. Concord, MA John Hopkins University Harvard University St. Louis, MO The Journal of Speculative Philosophy University of Vermont Columbia University University of Chicago

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller Nathaniel Hawthorne Louisa May Alcott Walt Whitman Henry James Sr. James Marsh William Torrey Harris William James Transcendentalism Nature Divinity School Address American Scholar Address Self-Reliance The Over-Soul

6. William James (1842 - 1910) Henry James Sr. Charles Sanders Peirce William Torrey Harris Henri Bergson Alfred North Whitehead John Dewey Paul Carus D. T. Suzuki Gertrude Stein Beatrice Erskine Lane The Will to Believe Principles of Psychology On the Varieties of Religious Experience Pragmatism Radical Empiricism A Pluralistic Universe

7. John Dewey (1859 - 1952) H.A.P. Torrey George Sylvester Morris Charles Sanders Peirce William Torrey Harris George Herbert Mead Mortimer Adler Marc Van Doran Evolutionary Ethics The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology Instrumentalism Education and Democracy

8. Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968) The Seven Storey Mountain Zen and the Birds of Appetite Marc Van Doran Thomas Berry D. T. Suzuki The Dali Lama Thich Nhat Hanh Chatrul Rinpoche On the Road Dharma Bums Marc Van Doran Allen Ginsberg William Burroughs Gary Snyder D.T. Suzuki Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)