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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828627803321

Autore

Margolis Joseph <1924->

Titolo

Pragmatism without foundations : reconciling realism and relativism / / Joseph Margolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-283-20683-8

9786613206831

1-4411-6728-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

08.32

Disciplina

144.3

149

149/.2

Soggetti

Realism

Relativity

Pragmatism

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

Cover; Contents; Preface to Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Sense of the Issue; Introduction; Part One: The Defense and Application of Relativism; 1 The Nature and Strategies of Relativism; 2 Historicism and Universalism; 3 Objectivism and Relativism; 4 Rationality and Realism; 5 Realism and Relativism; Part Two: Foundations and the Recovery of Pragmatism; 6 The Legitimation of Realism; 7 Pragmatism without Foundations; 8 A Sense of Rapprochement between Analytic and Continental European Philosophy; 9 Cognitive Issues in the Realist-Idealist Dispute

10 Skepticism, Foundationalism, and Pragmatism11 Scientific Realism as a Transcendental Issue; Epilogue: Pragmatisim''s New Options;  Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America''s leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and



relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern f