Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

ISBN-13: 9780198822608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Cheryl Misak

Opis

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the reception of American pragmatism in England. Supposedly it never recovered from the attacks of Russell and Moore; but Misak shows that Frank Ramsey, under the influence of Peirce, developed a pragmatist position of great promise, and that he transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein.

Recenzje

Cambridge Pragmatism is a significant and much needed text, one that contributes to a new standard story of 20th century philosophy. For those of us raised on some version of the old standard story-and there are lots of us out there—it's an important opportunity not just to reconsider the history of pragmatism and early analytic philosophy, but to reassess our own histories as well.

O autorze

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy, and former Provost, at the University of Toronto. She works on American Pragmatism, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine, and is the author of The American Pragmatists, Truth and the End of Inquiry, Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation, and Verificationism: Its History and Prospects.