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Pragmatic Perspectives: Constructivism beyond Truth and Realism book cover

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Pragmatic Perspectives Constructivism beyond Truth and Realism

By Robert Schwartz Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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For a good part of the 20th century, the classic Pragmatists—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey—and pragmatism in general were largely ignored by analytic philosophers. They were said to hold such untenable views as whatever best satisfies our needs is true and that the end justifies the means. Despite a recent revival of interest in these figures, spurred largely by the work... Read more
 

Introduction



Part I: Background



1. Whatever Happened to Pragmatism + Reflections



2. Pragmatic Inquiry and the "Go" of Truth



3. Epistemology: Inquiry or Knowledge



4. Pragmatic Inquiry and Knowledge



Part II: Constructivism



5. I'm Going to Make You a Star



6. Starting from Scratch: Making Worlds



7. The Power of Pictures



8. Creating Art, Creating Reality: A Wild(e) View of Art



Part III: Values and Ethics



9. The Facts about Facts



10. Pragmatic Constructivism: Values, Norms, and Obligations



Part IV: Perception



11. Veridicality in Berkeley's Theory of Vision



12. Pluralist Perspectives on Perceptual Error



13. Perceptual Veridicality

Biography

Robert Schwartz is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has taught at Rockefeller University and CUNY, and been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago. He is the author of: Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes, Visual Versions, and Rethinking Pragmatism

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