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Subject(s)

• Pragmatism [Browse]

Series

• Wadsworth philosophers series [More in this series]
• Wadsworth philosophical topics [More in this series]

Summary note

"The book discusses the main figures and central issues of the pragmatist movement in American philosophy, helping you understand and identify key ideas so that you can easily succeed in this course. Also shows both the unity that shapes the movement and the differences between the individual thinkers, with special attention to their views on meaning, truth, and inquiry."--Publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 1. Pragmatism and its critics
• 2. Peirce and the principle of pragmatism
• 3. James : pragmatism and the will to believe
• 4. The pragmatic humanism of F.C.S. Schiller
• 5. The wild years : pragmatism in Florence
• 6. Peirce revisited : the normative turn
• 7. Dewey's engaged instrumentalism
• 8. The conceptual pragmatism of C.I. Lewis
• 9. Pragmatism and analysis : Morris, Carnap, Quine
• 10. Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism
• 11. Susan Haack's foundherentist epistemology
• 12. The prospects of pragmatism.

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ISBN

0534584047

OCLC

49737278

RCP

H - S

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