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Each chapter in this volume explores a dual vision of pragmatism in philosophy of science and metaphysics: specific pragmatist views are developed, demonstrating how to take a distinctively pragmatist approach to some particular issue or subfield; and the general shape of what it means to take a pragmatist approach is elucidated as well.
List of contents
- 1: H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell: Pragmatism for Philosophy of Science
- 2: James Woodward: Sketch of some themes for a pragmatist philosophy of science
- 3: H. K. Andersen: Trueing
- 4: Sandra D. Mitchell: The Bearable Thinness of Being: A Pragmatist Metaphysics of Affordances
- 5: Edward Hall: Respectful Deflationism
- 6: David Danks: Pragmatism and the challenge of scientific (dis)unification
- 7: Laura Ruetsche: Pragmatism, Perennialism, and the Physics of Ignorance
About the author
Dr. Andersen received her B.Sc. in Physics at Montana State University, and completed an M.Sc. at the London School of Economics. She completed her dissertation in 2009 at the University of Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Department. Since then, she has been a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Professor Mitchell received a BA in Philosophy from Pitzer College, an MSc in Logic, Philosophy and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She taught at the Ohio State University and University of California, San Diego before returning to HPS. She has been a research fellow at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinare Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Center for the Philosophy of Science at Pitt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Witten/Herdecke University and Max Planck Institute for History of Science.
Summary
Each chapter in this volume explores a dual vision of pragmatism in philosophy of science and metaphysics: specific pragmatist views are developed, demonstrating how to take a distinctively pragmatist approach to some particular issue or subfield; and the general shape of what it means to take a pragmatist approach is elucidated as well.
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This volume is a great contribution that will be of particular value to anyone interested in pragmatist approaches to philosophy of science.
