Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry - Fallibilism and Indeterminacy

Zusammenfassung The philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce is important at every stage of the history of modern American thought. This work explains that one concern with the idea of fallibilism is that it might all too easily slide into "skepticism", and this would undermine the project of making Peirce's fallibilism the linchpin for any realistic pragmatism.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Cook, Elizabeth Cooke, Cooke Elizabeth
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2006
• EAN: 9780826488992
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-8899-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Continuum Studies in American; Continuum Studies in American; Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge