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Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; But Why Holmes? Who Was He?; Demythologized Rationality: Pragmatist Sensibilities and Neuroscience; References; 2 Holmes's Critical Experience in War: Trauma and the Brain; Holmes in War and Peace; War and Memory; Trauma, Fear and the Brain; Wrong-Doing and Fear; Law, War, and Morality: Social Considerations of US Civil War; Conclusion; References; 3 Experience, Prediction, Surviving; Varieties of Pragmatism: James, Holmes, and Peirce
The Club and the Pragmatists: Holmes, Peirce, Green and Inquiry-Common Themes About Predictive Coherence and AdaptationTracking Consequences, Utilitarian Sensibilities, and Staying Anchored to Objects and Social Considerations: A Recurrent Emphasis for Holmes and Other Pragmatists; Reasoning and Context: Continuous Monitoring, Coping with Uncertainty; Conclusion; References; 4 Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature; Introduction; Variants of Pragmatism; Towards Pragmatism; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Pragmatism; Good Enough Reasoning, Practice and the Law: Legal Pragmatism; Neopragmatism
Conclusion: Pragmatism and Naturalism, Not Natural LawReferences; 5 Duty, Surviving, Social Contact; Introduction; Duty to the Republic: Marshall, Jefferson, Lincoln, Holmes; Battling for Federalism Within the Bounds of Reason: Social Viability; Duty and Rules; Social Contact, Holmes and Friends: Keeping Contact Through Correspondence Over a Lifetime; A Promised Land: Evolving Law and What Holmes Symbolized for Some; Liberalism and Pragmatism; Meliorism and Human Progress: Dewey Not Holmes; Dewey, Holmes's Better Half or "The Road Not Taken" by Holmes: Our Social Nature; References
6 Emersonian SensibilitiesSenses of Nature; Sense of Place; Insight by Any Means Necessary: Metaphors and Wallace Stevens; Aesthetics, Reasoning and Anchors; Evolution and Cognitive Fluidity; Thinking Back and Ahead; Conclusion: A Sense for What Matters; References; 7 Bounded Choice, Human Freedom and Problem-Solving; Introduction; Limiting Choice; Freedom Within the Bounds of Reason: Kant, Holmes and Dewey; Experience and Reason; Choice and Social Contact; Competition of Ideas; Choice and Intellectual Freedom; Constitutional Possibilities and Constraints: Bounded Choices
Neuroscience ConsiderationsConclusion; References; 8 Naturalizing Decision Making: Heuristics and Concerns; Demythologized Reason or Good Enough Problem Solving; Good Enough Reasoning; Problem Solving, Inference, and Concern; Conclusion; References; 9 Ethics, Body Politic, and Neuroscience; Ethics, Brain, and Body Politics; Moral Inclinations; Moral Actions; Neuroscience of Prosocial Sentiments; Beyond the Brain: Pragmatism and Expanded Social Polity; Body Politic: Rights; Conclusion: Ethics, the Brain, and the Body Politic; References; 10 Neuroscientific Considerations and the Law; Epistemic Trajectories, Neural Engine and Neural Design: Discovery
The Club and the Pragmatists: Holmes, Peirce, Green and Inquiry-Common Themes About Predictive Coherence and AdaptationTracking Consequences, Utilitarian Sensibilities, and Staying Anchored to Objects and Social Considerations: A Recurrent Emphasis for Holmes and Other Pragmatists; Reasoning and Context: Continuous Monitoring, Coping with Uncertainty; Conclusion; References; 4 Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature; Introduction; Variants of Pragmatism; Towards Pragmatism; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Pragmatism; Good Enough Reasoning, Practice and the Law: Legal Pragmatism; Neopragmatism
Conclusion: Pragmatism and Naturalism, Not Natural LawReferences; 5 Duty, Surviving, Social Contact; Introduction; Duty to the Republic: Marshall, Jefferson, Lincoln, Holmes; Battling for Federalism Within the Bounds of Reason: Social Viability; Duty and Rules; Social Contact, Holmes and Friends: Keeping Contact Through Correspondence Over a Lifetime; A Promised Land: Evolving Law and What Holmes Symbolized for Some; Liberalism and Pragmatism; Meliorism and Human Progress: Dewey Not Holmes; Dewey, Holmes's Better Half or "The Road Not Taken" by Holmes: Our Social Nature; References
6 Emersonian SensibilitiesSenses of Nature; Sense of Place; Insight by Any Means Necessary: Metaphors and Wallace Stevens; Aesthetics, Reasoning and Anchors; Evolution and Cognitive Fluidity; Thinking Back and Ahead; Conclusion: A Sense for What Matters; References; 7 Bounded Choice, Human Freedom and Problem-Solving; Introduction; Limiting Choice; Freedom Within the Bounds of Reason: Kant, Holmes and Dewey; Experience and Reason; Choice and Social Contact; Competition of Ideas; Choice and Intellectual Freedom; Constitutional Possibilities and Constraints: Bounded Choices
Neuroscience ConsiderationsConclusion; References; 8 Naturalizing Decision Making: Heuristics and Concerns; Demythologized Reason or Good Enough Problem Solving; Good Enough Reasoning; Problem Solving, Inference, and Concern; Conclusion; References; 9 Ethics, Body Politic, and Neuroscience; Ethics, Brain, and Body Politics; Moral Inclinations; Moral Actions; Neuroscience of Prosocial Sentiments; Beyond the Brain: Pragmatism and Expanded Social Polity; Body Politic: Rights; Conclusion: Ethics, the Brain, and the Body Politic; References; 10 Neuroscientific Considerations and the Law; Epistemic Trajectories, Neural Engine and Neural Design: Discovery