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The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism

ISBN: 9780521125802 | 0521125804
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/31/2013

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SummaryTable of Contents
Provides an insightful overview of what has made pragmatism such an attractive and exciting prospect to thinkers of different persuasions.

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.

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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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