Schwartz Rethinking Pragmatism

From William James to Contemporary Philosophy
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25369-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the AmericanPragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenchedviews of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism,realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. It clarifiespragmatic ideas and arguments spelling out the significantimplications they have for present-day philosophicalcontroversies.
* Explores the work of the American Pragmatists, especially Jamesand Dewey, on the issues of truth, reference, meaning,instrumentalism, essences, realism, pluralism and religiousbeliefs.
* The only available publication to provide a detailed commentaryon James's book, Pragmatism, while exploring theimplications of the American Pragmatists' ideas and arguments forcontemporary philosophical issues
* Challenges standard readings of the American Pragmatists'positions in a way that illuminates and questions the assumptionsunderlying current discussions of these topics.
* Coherently arranged by structuring the book around the themesdiscussed in each chapter of James's original work.
* Provides a new analysis and understanding of the pragmatictheory of truth and semantics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii
Bibliographic Key ix
Introduction 1
Background Themes 9
1 The Place of Values in Inquiry (Lecture I) 15
2 The Pragmatic Maxim and Pragmatic Instrumentalism (Lecture II) 31
3 Substance and Other Metaphysical Claims (Lecture III) 52
4 Materialism, Physicalism, and Reduction (Lecture IV) 67
5 Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V) 78
6 Pragmatic Semantics and Pragmatic Truth (Lecture VI) 92
7 Worldmaking (Lecture VII) 124
8 Belief, Hope, and Conjecture (Lecture VIII) 140
Bibliography 157
Index 163

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Schwartz is Distinguished Professor of Philosophyat the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has taught atRockefeller University and CUNY and has been a visiting professorat, amongst others, Harvard University, the University of Chicago,and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Vision:Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes (Blackwell, 1994) andVisual Versions (MIT Press, 2006) and the editor ofPerception (Blackwell, 2004). He has published numerousarticles developing pragmatic approaches to issues in epistemology,language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science.