The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism
ISBN: 9780521110877 | 0521110874
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 7/31/2013
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Introduces some of the most innovative philosophical thinking of recent times. Covers key figures such as Peirce, James, Dewey, Quine, Rorty and Putnam, as well as the main themes they have opened up and explored. Of interest to students and scholars of pragmatism, American philosophy and political theory.
Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneerin... MORE
Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneerin... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction: the pragmatic orientation | |
| Classic Pragmatism: | |
| 'Peirce's Principle' and the origins of pragmatism | |
| James' Holism: the human continuum | |
| Dewey's pragmatism: instrumentalism and meliorism | |
| Pragmatism Revived: | |
| W. V. Quine: pragmatism within the limits of empiricism alone | |
| Hegel and pragmatism | |
| Heidegger's pragmatism redux | |
| Practising pragmatist-Wittgensteinianism | |
| Putnam, pragmatism, and the fate of metaphysics | |
| Rorty's contribution to pragmatism: imagination over truth | |
| Pragmatism at Work: | |
| Feminism and pragmatism | |
| Education and the pragmatic temperament | |
| Dewey's pragmatic aesthetics: the contours of experience | |
| Pragmatism and religion | |
| Radical pragmatism | |
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