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UNINA9910786146703321 |
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Autore |
Misak Cheryl |
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Titolo |
The American pragmatists [[electronic resource] /] / Cheryl Misak |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-105737-1 |
1-299-13292-8 |
0-19-165138-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Oxford history of philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pragmatism |
Philosophy, American - 19th century |
Philosophy, American - 20th century |
Philosophy, American - 21st century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. The founders of pragmatism -- pt. II. The middle period -- pt. III. The path to the twenty-first century. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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