1st Edition

Pragmatic Reason Christopher Hookway and the American Philosophical Tradition

264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway’s work on the American philosophical tradition and its significance for contemporary discussions of the understanding of mind, meaning, knowledge, and value. Hookway’s original and extensive studies of... Read more

Introduction Robert B. Talisse, Daniel Herbert and Paniel Reyes Cárdenas

1. Peirce and ‘Community’ Christopher Hookway and Mara-Daria Cojocaru

2. The Unity of Pragmatism: Hookway's Contribution to the Tradition Joshua Forstenzer

3. Hookway on Peirce on Truth Andrew Howat

4. Christopher Hookway's Study of Peirce's Development: Modes of Being Paniel Reyes Cárdenas

5. Hookway's Exchange with Apel: Peirce and Transcendental Arguments Daniel Herbert

6. Peirce on Vital Matters and the Scientific Method Gabriele Gava

7. Empiricism without Dogmas: Lewis and Ramsey on the A Priori Cheryl Misak

8. The Will to Believe, Epistemic Virtue, and Holistic Transcendental Pragmatism Sami Pihlström

9. Critical Commonsensism in Contemporary Metaphysics Graeme A. Forbes

10. The Affective Preconditions of Inquiry: Hookway on Doubt, Altruism, and Self-confidence Neil W. Williams

11. Is Creativity an Intellectual Virtue? Elizabeth F. Cooke

12. Peirce on Metaphysics and Commonsense Belief: A Challenge to Hookway's Account Joshua Wilson Black

13. Hookway's Soft Skepticism and Epistemic Conservatism: A Modest Skeptical Pragmatist Reply Scott Aikin

14. To Inquire Hopefully: Hookway, Peirce, and the Role of Hope in Rational Inquiry Robert Stern

Biography

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of over 100 academic articles and more than 10 books, including Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side (2021).

Paniel Reyes Cárdenas was made lecturer and researcher at UPAEP (People's Autonomous University of Puebla State, Puebla, Mexico) where he is now chair of philosophy of language and medieval philosophy. Paniel is part of the national council for research of Mexico, awarded SNI 1 for his research work. As a junior scholar, Paniel was awarded as Honorary Researcher by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Sheffield in 2017. Paniel has published Scholastic Realism (2018) and Ideas in Development (2018).

Daniel Herbert has held research and lecturing positions at the University of Sheffield, UPAEP (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Puebla) and King’s College London. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield and has published research on several figures from the history of philosophy, including Kant, Nietzsche, Bradley, Peirce, James, Husserl, Cassirer, and Sartre.