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Zusatztext This book deserves to become a new standard for understanding the history of philosophical pragmatism; no other work covers such a diverse range of essential pragmatists together in such a short space, accurately and thoughtfully placing them in context with one another and with tradition as a whole ... Essential. Informationen zum Autor Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy, as well as Vice-President and Provost at the University of Toronto. She received a BA from the University of Lethbridge, an MA from Columbia University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She works on American pragmatism, the theory of truth, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine. She has published and edited books with Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press, and has published over forty scholarly articles. In 2008, her 'Experience, Narrative, and Ethical Deliberation' was declared one of the ten best papers in philosophy by The Philosopher's Annual. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, a Visiting Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge, and a Rhodes Scholar. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the 1870s to the present day. She traces the connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy, and draws out the continuing influence of pragmatist ideas in the recent history of philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Trajectory of American Pragmatism PART I THE FOUNDERS OF PRAGMATISM 1: Pragmatist Themes in Early American Thought 2: Chauncey Wright (1830-1875) 3: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) 4: William James (1842-1910) 5: Fellow Travelers PART II: THE MIDDLE PERIOD 6: The Reception of Early American Pragmatism 7: John Dewey (1859-1952) 8: Fellow Travelers PART III THE PATH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 9: The Rise of Logical Empiricism 10: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) 11: Willard van Orman Quine (1908-2000) 12: Fellow Travellers 13: Richard Rorty (1931-2007) 14: Hilary Putnam (1926 - ) 15: The Current Debates Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
