Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, James H. Tufts, and John Dewey, George Herbert Mead was one of the founders of pragmatism, a distinctively American philosophical movement that called for an empirical and experimental approach to philosophical problems in which ideas and theories are evaluated on the basis of their practical consequences. Mead published many articles but no books (except a collaboration with several other authors) during his lifetime; after his death, several of his students produced four books in his name from his unpublished--and even unfinished--notes and manuscripts, from students' notes, and from stenographic records of some of his courses at the University of Chicago. The closest Mead came to completing a book during his lifetime was his Carus Lectures, delivered at the American Philosophical Association Meeting in Berkeley, California, in December 1930. These lectures, together with several supplementary essays, were edited by Arthur E. Murphy as...