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List of contents
Foreword by Cheryl Misak. 1. Introduction: The Problems of Pragmatist Philosophers. Part I. Encounters with the Classical Idiom 2. Peirce’s Mixed Theory of Epistemic Justification. 3. Fixing Belief as Epistemic Conduct. 4. Clifford’s Pragmatism and the Will to Believe. 5. James’s Moral Philosophy. 6. What is Living and What is Dead in Deweyan Political Theory. Part II. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy 7. Against Triumphalism: Defending Analytic Pragmatism. 8. Metaphilosophical Creep. 9. Pragmatist Metaphilosophy and Skepticism. Part III. Pragmatist Proposals 10. Can Pragmatist be Pluralists? 11. The Ethics of Inquiry 12. Global Expressivism: Is it Still Cool? 13. On a Certain Blindness in Pragmatist Political Philosophy. 14. Public Argument in a Free Society. 15. Epilogue: Pragmatism as Minimalist Metaphilosophy
About the author
Scott F. Aikin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily on pragmatism, epistemology, and argumentation theory. He has written more than fifty scholarly essays, and he has authored two books: Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2011) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014).
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Political Science, and Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on pragmatism and contemporary political philosophy. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, and several books, including Democracy and Moral Conflict (2009) and Engaging Political Philosophy (2016).
Summary
Since the publication of their first co-authored article in 2005, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse have argued for a distinctive, yet controversial, version of pragmatism. This book sets out for the first time a cohesive, unified, and integrated statement on Aikin and Talisse’s distinctive strand of pragmatist philosophy.
