256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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The Two Pragmatisms - From Peirce to Rorty maps the main movements within the pragmatist tradition. Two distinct forms of pragmatism are identified, that of Peirce and that of the `second' pragmatism stemming from James' interpretation of Peirce and seen in the work of Dewey and above all Rorty. Both the influential work of Rorty and the way in which he has transformed contemporary philosophy's... Read more
Introduction, 1. Peirce: his background and his account of inquiry, 2. Peirce: the theory of signs, 3. Peirce: Pragmatism and William James, 4. Peirce: metaphysics and cosmology, 5. James: background and The Principles of Psychology, 6. James: ‘The Will to Believe’, 7. James: The Varieties of Religious Experience, 8. Dewey: background and philosophical psychology, 9. Dewey: philosophy and Empiricism, 10. Dewey: Radical Empiricism, 11. Rorty: the mirror of nature, 12. Rorty: hermeneutics and irony, 13. Rorty: the history of philosophy, Summary and conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
H. O. Mounce lectures in philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction.
