New pragmatists [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Cheryl Misak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451074803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-16490-9; 9786611164904; 0-19-153557-5; 1-4294-9190-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Classificazione: 08.38
• Altri autori (Persone): MisakC. J (Cheryl J.)
• Disciplina: 144/.3
• Soggetti: Pragmatism; Pragmatisme; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On our interest in getting things right: pragmatism without narcissism / Jeffrey Stout -- On not being a pragmatist : eight reasons and a cause / Ian Hacking -- Relativism, pragmatism, and the practice of science / Arthur Fine -- Pragmatism and deflationism / Cheryl Misak -- Pragmatism, quasi-realism, and the global challenge / David Macarthur and Huw Price -- Pragmatism and ethical particularism / David Bakhurst -- Was pragmatism the successor to idealism? / Terry Pinkard -- Pragmatism and objective truth / Danielle Macbeth.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. The classical pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, put forward views of truth, rationality, and morality that they took to be connected to, and good for, our practices of inquiry and deliberation. In this volume, some of our very best contemporary philosophers. explore this and develop the pragmatist project, showing that pragmatism is a strong current in philosophy today. - ;P