Cambridge pragmatism : from Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein / Cheryl Misak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Misak, C. J. (Cheryl J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism--History.

Pragmatism.

Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.

Peirce, Charles S.

James, William, 1842-1910.

James, William.

Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903-1930.

Ramsey, Frank Plumpton.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the reception of American pragmatism in England. Supposedly it never recovered from the attacks of Russell and Moore; but Misak shows that Frank Ramsey, under the influence of Peirce, developed a pragmatist position of great promise, and that he transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein

Contents:

Cover; Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Reference and Spelling Policy; References to the works of William James; Reference to the works of C. S. Peirce; References to the works of Frank Ramsey; References to the works of Bertrand Russell; Reference to the works of Victoria Welby; References to the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Permissions; Introduction; PART I: Cambridge Massachusetts; 1: Peirce; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Pragmatic Maxim: Meaning, Use, Practice; 1.3 Belief and Disposition

1.4 Truth1.5 Experience: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Religion, and Morals; 1.6 Logic and Probability; 1.7 Regulative Assumptions and the Principle of Bivalence; 2: James; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Psychology: Observation and Experience; 2.3 Truth and Usefulness; 2.4 Willing to Believe; 2.5 Religious Experience; 2.6 James on Common Sense; 3: Bridges across the Atlantic; 3.1 F. C. S. Schiller; 3.2 Victoria Welby; 3.3 C. K. Ogden; PART II: Cambridge England; 4: The Anti-Pragmatism of Pre-War Cambridge; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Revolt against Idealism: The Early Moore and Russell on Propositions and Reality4.3 Russell's Logical Atomism; 4.4 Russell's Attack on Pragmatism; 4.5 Moore's Contribution; 4.6 The Wittgenstein of the Tractatus; 4.7 Wittgenstein's Intersections with the Vienna Circle; 5: The Pull of Pragmatism on Russell; 5.1 Russell at Harvard; 5.2 New Thoughts about Experience, Belief, and Meaning; 5.3 The Analysis of Mind; 6: Ramsey; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Undergraduate Ramsey and the Tractatus; 6.3 The Undergraduate Ramsey's Response to Russell

6.4 The 1927 Ramsey: Belief, Action, Probability, Truth6.5 Philosophy and Meaninglessness; 6.6 'General Propositions and Causality'; 6.7 On Truth; 6.8 Ethics and Pragmatist Naturalism; 6.9 A Step beyond the Redundancy Theory to the Pragmatist Theory of Truth; 7: Wittgenstein: Post-Tractatus; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Wittgenstein and Ramsey, 1929; 7.3 Wittgenstein's 1929 Pragmatism; 7.4 The Primacy of Practice and Meaning as Use; 7.5 Truth; 7.6 Rule-Following, Privacy, and Behaviour; 7.7 Religion, Ethics, and Forms of Life; 7.8 On Doubt and Certainty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Names Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-882260-X

0-19-178027-8

0-19-102004-4