Here are the readings for our philosophy reading group this year (2009-2010). There’s a general emphasis on practice-based theories:

• Bruno Latour, Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
• Stephen Toulmin, Return to Reason
• Eddie S. Glaude, jr., In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
• Optional: Frank Margonis, “John Dewey’s Racialized Visions of the Student and the Classroom Community,” Educational Theory 59, no. 1 (2009): 17-39.
• John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
• Victor Turner, From Ritual to Theater: The Human Seriousness of Play
• Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics; there is a cheaper edition but it lacks the Haddock Siegfried intro
• Alasdair MacIntyre, “Idea of an Educated Public”
• Optional: Latour review of Dewey’s Public and its Problems

Other possibilities:

Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism
Michel de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life
Joe Dunne, Back to the Rough Ground
Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter
Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social (or one of his others)
Jonathan Lear, Therapeutic Action
Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals
Theodore Schatski, Social Practices
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries
Leslie Paul Thiele, The Heart of Judgment
Stephen Turner, The Social Theory of Practices
Victor Turner, The Ritual Process (or From Ritual to Theater)
and/or modern classics such as Arendt, Collingwood, Gadamer, Goodman, Oakeshott, Wittgenstein.