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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524852503321

Autore

Lovejoy Arthur O (Arthur Oncken), <1873-1962., >

Titolo

The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays / Arthur O. Lovejoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins Press, , [1963]

©[1963]

ISBN

0-8018-0396-9

1-4214-3246-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 290 pages )

Disciplina

144.3081

Soggetti

Pragmatisme

Pragmatism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The thirteen pragmatisms -- Pragmatism and realism -- Pragmatism and theology -- William James as philosopher -- James's Does consciousness exist? -- Pragmatism versus the pragmatist -- Pragmatism as interactionism -- Pragmatism and the new materialism -- The anomaly of knowledge.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1963. The essays in this volume are critical and, with one exception, directed against the philosophic movement of pragmatism. "The Thirteen Pragmatisms" is an exercise in logical analysis and is a challenge to a group of philosophers who have taken on a collective name to show how their apparent diversities are to be reconciled. Few philosophers would call themselves orthodox followers of this train of thought, so these essays can be studied without a sense of personal injury that deadens the critical faculty and obscures insight. In The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays, logical technique is on display: the author's keenness in spotting double meanings and his ability to rephrase them in univalent form. This collection of essays should afford students of philosophy a set of cases in which they need not take sides but which give them an analytical method they can practice themselves on contemporary issues. The fact that these essays



are on the whole critical gives them a heuristic value that dogmatic or expository essays would not have.