| Week | Day | Reading | Due |
| Jan 17-21 | M | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | |
| W | Introduction/Orientation | ||
| Jan 24-28 | M | Charles Sanders Peirce, Selected Writings, pp. 15-58 | |
| W | " pp. 73-88 and pp. 91-112 | ||
| Jan 31 - Feb 4 | M | " pp. 113-141 | |
| W | " pp. 142-159 and pp. 345-357 | ||
| Feb 7-11 | M | William James, Writings, 1902-1910, pp. 487-522 | |
| W | " pp. 523-540; 572-590 | ||
| Feb 14-18 | M | " pp. 591-620 | |
| W | " pp. 857-896 | ||
| Feb 21-25 | M | " pp. 985-1006; 1095-1102 | |
| W | Charles Sanders Peirce, Selected Writings, pp. 180-223 | P#1 | |
| Feb 28 - Mar 3 | M | John Dewey, School and Society, pp. 3-62 | |
| W | " pp. 63-115 | ||
| Mar 6-10 | M | " pp. 116-159 | |
| W | John Dewey, Theory of the Moral Life, pp. 3-63 | ||
| Mar 13-17 | Spring Vacation | ||
| Mar 20-24 | M | " pp. 64-119 | |
| W | " pp. 120-176 | ||
| Mar 27-31 | M | John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, pp. 1-52 | |
| W | " pp. 53-102 | ||
| Apr 3-7 | M | " pp. 103-160 | |
| W | " pp. 161-213 | P#2 | |
| Apr 10-14 | M | John Dewey, Democracy and Education, pp. 1-53 | |
| W | " pp. 81-110, 231-249, & 291-305 | ||
| Apr 17-21 | M | John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, pp. 3-73 | |
| W | " pp. 74-176 | ||
| Apr 24-28 | HMC Presentations Period | ||
| May 1-5 | M | Reading period | |
| W | " | ||
| HMC Senior Finals Paper #3 due Friday, May 5th, 5:00 PM, for seniors | |||
| Finals Week | Paper #3 due Wednesday, May 10th, 5:00 PM, for all others | ||
Pragmatism pp. 487-522 = "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy" and "What Pragmatism Means"
pp. 523-540 = "Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered"
pp. 572-590 = "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth"
pp. 591-620 = "Pragmatism and Humanism" and "Pragmatism and Religion"
The Meaning of Truth pp. 857-896 = "Humanism and Truth," "The Relation Between Knower and Known" and "The Essence of Humanism"
Some Problems of Philosophy pp. 985-1006 = "Philosophy and Its Critics," "The Problems of Metaphysics" and "The Problem of Being"
pp. 1095-1102 = "Faith and the Right to Believe"
White, Morton (ed.). Documents in the History of American Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1972)
Schneider, Herbert W. A History of American Philosophy, Second Edition (Columbia University Press, 1963)
Flower, Elizabeth and Murray G. Murphey. A History of Philosophy in America, Volumes 1 & 2 (Capricorn Books, 1977)
Kuklick, Bruce. The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Yale University Press, 1977)
Brent, Joseph. Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life (Indiana University Press, 1998)
Perry, Ralph Barton. The Thought and Character of William James (New York: George Braziller, Publisher, 1954)
Dykhuizen, George. The Life and Mind of John Dewey (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978)
Hook, Sydney. John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995) (originally published in 1939)
Ryan, Alan. John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (W. W. Norton & Co, 1995)
Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991)
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