American philosophy
Ryder is a specialist in American philosophy, especially American philosophical naturalism and pragmatism, its historical development, contemporary applicability, and its reception outside the U.S. His published work tends to focus on issues in systematic ontology and epistemology, and on social and political philosophy. He is the author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought (Library of American Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Press, 1999), editor of American Philosophic Naturalism in the 20th Century, (Prometheus Books, July 1994), and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, (with Armen Marsoobian, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, Russian Translation by Lyubov Bugaeva et al., Amerikanskaya Filosofiya: Vvedenie [American Philosophy: An Introduction] US Embassy Book Translation and Publication Program, Moscow: Idea Press, 2008), and The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (with Scott Pratt, Prometheus Books, 2002).