Cambridge Pragmatism

Cambridge Pragmatism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9780191088964
ISBN-13 : 019108896X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Cambridge Pragmatism by : Cheryl Misak

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.

Cambridge Pragmatism

Cambridge Pragmatism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780191020049
ISBN-13 : 0191020044
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Cambridge Pragmatism by : Cheryl Misak

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.

The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism

The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9780521110877
ISBN-13 : 0521110874
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism by : Alan Malachowski

This book provides an insightful overview of what has made pragmatism such an attractive and exciting prospect to thinkers of different persuasions.

A Natural History of Pragmatism

A Natural History of Pragmatism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : 9781139461740
ISBN-13 : 1139461745
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis A Natural History of Pragmatism by : Joan Richardson

Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive, scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781107354838
ISBN-13 : 1107354838
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by : Huw Price

Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age

Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781009051507
ISBN-13 : 1009051504
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age by : Sami Pihlström

It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of religion, Pihlström argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth. James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.

Coevolutionary Pragmatism

Coevolutionary Pragmatism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781108415293
ISBN-13 : 1108415296
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Coevolutionary Pragmatism by : Xiaoyang Tang

Decades-long field research, investigate Chinese approach in Africa's development, reinterpret classics on industrial capitalism, and reveal effects of non-linear synergism

Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment

Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0262524279
ISBN-13 : 9780262524278
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment by : Richard J. Bernstein

Leading philosophers and social thinkers, including Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, and Jurgen Habermas, pay tribute to the influential American philosopher Richard J. Bernstein.

Practical Action

Practical Action
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781527517929
ISBN-13 : 1527517926
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Practical Action by : Albert Ogien

This book delineates a pluralist and dynamic model of practical action which thoughtfully takes into account the reflexive conception of agency that is, by and large, prevailing in current social sciences research. Such a model will challenge the one the cognitive sciences have rather successfully imposed on our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and action. To make this model available, the book compares Wittgenstein’s theses on knowing, the pragmatist outlook on inquiry and the analysis of action in common offered by interactionist sociology. It thus shows how an integrated theory of practical action would warrant a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.

The American Pragmatists

The American Pragmatists
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780191057373
ISBN-13 : 0191057371
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Pragmatists by : Cheryl Misak

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. This ambitious new account identifies the connections between traditional American pragmatism and contemporary philosophy and argues that the most defensible version of pragmatism — roughly, that of Peirce, Lewis, and Sellars — must be seen and recovered as an important part of the analytic tradition.