The Pragmatism Reader : From Peirce through the Present / Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aikin, Scott F., Editor.

Talisse, Robert B., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a distinctively pragmatist approach to a core philosophical problem. The collection includes work by pragmatism's founders, Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, as well as seminal writings by mid-twentieth-century pragmatists such as Sidney Hook, C. I. Lewis, Nelson Goodman, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid Sellars, and W.V.O. Quine. This reader also includes the most important work in contemporary pragmatism by philosophers like Susan Haack, Cornel West, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, Cheryl Misak, and Robert Brandom. Each selection is a stand-alone piece--not an excerpt or book chapter--and each is presented fully unabridged. The Pragmatism Reader challenges the notion that pragmatism fell into a midcentury decline and was dormant until the advent of "neopragmatism" in the 1980s. This comprehensive anthology reveals a rich and highly influential tradition running unbroken through twentieth-century philosophy and continuing today. It shows how American pragmatist philosophers have contributed to leading philosophical debates about truth, meaning, knowledge, experience, belief, existence, justification, and freedom. Covers pragmatist philosophy from its origins to today Features key writings by the leading pragmatist thinkers Demonstrates the continuity and enduring influence of pragmatism Challenges prevailing notions about pragmatism Includes only stand-alone pieces, completely unabridged Reflects the full range of pragmatist themes, arguments, concerns, and commitments

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Some Consequences of Four Incapacities / Peirce, Charles S.

The Fixation of Belief / Peirce, Charles S.

How to Make Our Ideas Clear / Peirce, Charles S.

Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results / James, William

Pragmatism's Conception of Truth / James, William

The Will to Believe / James, William

The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy / Dewey, John

The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy / Dewey, John

Creative Democracy-The Task before Us / Dewey, John

The Democratic Way of Life / Hook, Sidney

A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori / Lewis, C. I.

Words, Works, Worlds / Goodman, Nelson

The New Riddle of Induction / Goodman, Nelson

Two Dogmas of Empiricism / Quine, W. V. O.

On What There Is / Quine, W. V. O.

Natural Kinds / Quine, W. V. O.

Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology / Carnap, Rudolf

Language as Thought and as Communication / Sellars, Wilfrid

On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme / Davidson, Donald

Meaning and Reference / Putnam, Hilary

Realism with a Human Face / Putnam, Hilary

A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy / Putnam, Hilary

The World Well Lost / Rorty, Richard

Solidarity or Objectivity? / Rorty, Richard

The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy / Rorty, Richard

Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought / West, Cornel

Double-Aspect Foundherentism / Haack, Susan

Pragmatic Adjudication / Posner, Richard A.

From Truth to Semantics / Brandom, Robert

Truth as Convenient Friction / Price, Huw

Making Disagreement Matter / Misak, Cheryl

Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9786613001405

9781283001403

1283001403

9781400838684

1400838681

OCLC:

713010094