Rethinking Pragmatism : From William James to Contemporary Philosophy.
Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. €It clarifies pragmatic ideas and arguments spelling out the significant im...
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John Wiley & Sons,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Bibliographic Key; Introduction; Background Themes; 1: The Place of Values in Inquiry (Lecture I); 2: The Pragmatic Maxim and Pragmatic Instrumentalism (Lecture II); 3: Substance and Other Metaphysical Claims (Lecture III); 4: Materialism, Physicalism, and Reduction (Lecture IV); 5: Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V); 6: Pragmatic Semantics and Pragmatic Truth (Lecture VI); 7: Worldmaking (Lecture VII); 8: Belief, Hope, and Conjecture (Lecture VIII); Index.
