ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on genealogies. Throughout the twentieth century, pragmatists frequently characterized pragmatism as the future of philosophy, and they proclaimed that the philosophers of the future will be, and/or should be, pragmatists. Henry James developed radical empiricism as the metaphysics of pragmatism, set forth both pragmatism and radical empiricism as pluralism, and developed the moral content and consequences of this pluralism. A philosophy that offers no consolation, a philosophy intent on shooting no one, is not, for all that, a philosophy addressed to everyone. It is an invitation, an address to some but not all and as such constitutes exclusion. Pragmatism should not proclaim any less pluralism and difference in philosophy than it finds in life, in plural lives, temperaments, and the mass of meaning. Finally, it is crucial to understand that in becoming more fully pluralistic in thought, a person would not become thereby or automatically more fully pragmatic.
