New Pragmatists

Herausgeber: Misak, Cheryl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pragmatism is the view that our philosophical concepts must be connected to our practices - philosophy must stay connected to first-order inquiry, to real examples, to real-life expertise. Contemporary philosophers explore this and develop the pragmatist project, showing that pragmatism is a strong current in philosophy today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199279982
• ISBN-10: 0199279985
• Artikelnr.: 26884596

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Provost at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Jeffrey Stout: On Our Interest in Getting Things Right: Pragmatism
without Narcissism
* 2: Ian Hacking: On Not Being a Pragmatist: Eight Reasons and a Cause
* 3: Arthur Fine: Relativism, Pragmatism, and the Practice of Science
* 4: Cheryl Misak: Pragmatism and Deflationism
* 5: Huw Price and David Macarthur: Pragmatism, Quasi-Realism, and the
Global Challenge
* 6: David Bakhurst: Pragmatism and Ethical Particularism
* 7: Terry Pinkard: Was Pragmatism the Successor to Idealism?
* 8: Danielle Macbeth: Pragmatism and Objective Truth