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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786146703321

Autore

Misak Cheryl

Titolo

The American pragmatists [[electronic resource] /] / Cheryl Misak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-19-105737-1

1-299-13292-8

0-19-165138-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

The Oxford history of philosophy

Disciplina

144.3

Soggetti

Pragmatism

Philosophy, American - 19th century

Philosophy, American - 20th century

Philosophy, American - 21st century

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The founders of pragmatism -- pt. II. The middle period -- pt. III. The path to the twenty-first century.

Sommario/riassunto

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. She identifies two dominant lines of thought in the tradition: the first begins with Charles S. Peirce and Chauncey Wright and continues through to Lewis, Quine, and Sellars; the other begins with William James and continues through to Dewey and Rorty. This ambitious new account identifies the connections betweentraditional American pragmatism and twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy, and links pragmatism to major posit