Pragmatism without foundations : reconciling realism and relativism / Joseph Margolis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margolis, Joseph, 1924- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Relativity.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America''s leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern f

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface to Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Sense of the Issue; Introduction; Part One: The Defense and Application of Relativism; 1 The Nature and Strategies of Relativism; 2 Historicism and Universalism; 3 Objectivism and Relativism; 4 Rationality and Realism; 5 Realism and Relativism; Part Two: Foundations and the Recovery of Pragmatism; 6 The Legitimation of Realism; 7 Pragmatism without Foundations; 8 A Sense of Rapprochement between Analytic and Continental European Philosophy; 9 Cognitive Issues in the Realist-Idealist Dispute

10 Skepticism, Foundationalism, and Pragmatism11 Scientific Realism as a Transcendental Issue; Epilogue: Pragmatisim''s New Options; Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613206831

9781283206839

1283206838

9781441167286

1441167285

OCLC:

893335782