The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism

ISBN-13: 9780521110877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 396 str.

South Africa) Alan Malachowski (University of Stellenbosch

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: the pragmatic orientation; Part I. Classic Pragmatism: 1. 'Peirce's Principle' and the origins of pragmatism Christopher Hookway; 2. James' Holism: the human continuum Alan Malachowski; 3. Dewey's pragmatism: instrumentalism and meliorism David Hildebrand; Part II. Pragmatism Revived: 4. W. V. Quine: pragmatism within the limits of empiricism alone Isaac Nevo; 5. Hegel and pragmatism Richard Bernstein; 6. Heidegger's pragmatism redux Mark Okrent; 7. Practising pragmatist-Wittgensteinianism Phil Hutchinson and Rupert Read; 8. Putnam, pragmatism, and the fate of metaphysics David Macarthur; 9. Rorty's contribution to pragmatism: imagination over truth Alan Malachowski; Part III. Pragmatism at Work: 10. Feminism and pragmatism Marjorie C. Miller; 11. Education and the pragmatic temperament Carol Nicholson; 12. Dewey's pragmatic aesthetics: the contours of experience Garry L. Hagberg; 13. Pragmatism and religion Anton A. van Niekerk; 14. Radical pragmatism Michael Sullivan and Daniel J. Solove.