The varieties of pragmatism : truth, realism, and knowledge from James to Rorty / Douglas McDermid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDermid, Douglas.

Series:

Continuum studies in American philosophy.

Continuum studies in American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For much of the twentieth century, many Anglo-American philosophers supported three theses - one about reality, one about truth, and one about human knowledge - that, taken together, underwrote debates in epistemology. The first was realism: the commonsensical-sounding view that the world of physical objects exists independently of human thought or language. The second was the correspondence theory of truth, according to which true statements or beliefs are those which accurately represent the way the world is. The third was foundationalism: the view that our knowledge of the world, like an ed

Contents:

Pragmatism and epistemology : deconstruction or reconstruction?

The decline and fall of correspondence

Keeping reality in mind : the comparison objection

Neither worldmakers nor mirrors : the constructivist objection

Towards a pragmatist epistemology

Rorty's brave new pragmatism

Anti-foundationalism : from the ground up

Anti-representationalism and its discontents.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index.

ISBN:

9786611295073

9781441118912

1441118918

9781281295071

1281295078

9781847141309

1847141307

OCLC:

929148499