 According to a narrative that is common in contemporary accounts of 20th Century philosophy in America, pragmatism fell into decline shortly following World War II. Professional philosophy, it is said, had become dominated by the pretensions to formalism and precision that is the mark of the “analytic philosophy” that had emigrated from the UK. Turning to technical topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, American philosophers abandoned the vision of philosophy as a publicly engaged practice of social critique that had been championed by Dewey, opting instead for view of philosophy as a highly specialized and anemically academic discipline. Pragmatism, this account has it, was “eclipsed” and “marginalized” by analytic philosophy. The popular account continues that in the 1980s, pragmatism was revived in the form of the “neo-pragmatism” proposed by Richard Rorty, Cornel West, Hilary Putnam, and Stanley Cavell, among others. However, when this account is presented by advocates of the tradition of “classical” pragmatism, the emphasis is placed on the allegation that neo-pragmatism is no true pragmatism at all, but a counterfeit of the movement begun by Perice, James, and Dewey. According to those allied with the classical pragmatists, pragmatism remains in eclipse. Hence there has emerged a significant “back to Dewey” movement within contemporary American philosophy, a movement that overtly sets itself in opposition to mainstream analytic philosophy and seeks to reestablish pragmatism’s predominance.