Pragmatism without foundations : reconciling realism and relativism / / Joseph Margolis
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| Autore: |
Margolis Joseph <1924->
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| Titolo: |
Pragmatism without foundations : reconciling realism and relativism / / Joseph Margolis
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Edizione: | Second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 144.3 |
| 149 | |
| 149/.2 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Realism |
| Relativity | |
| Pragmatism | |
| Classificazione: | 08.32 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pragmatism without foundations |
| ISBN: | 1-283-20683-8 |
| 9786613206831 | |
| 1-4411-6728-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790962103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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