Preludes to pragmatism : toward a reconstruction of philosophy /

Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of...

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Main Author: Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-416) and index. 
505 0 |a The importance of Dewey for philosophy (and for much else besides) -- The naturalists return -- Real realism: the Galilean strategy -- On the explanatory role of correspondence truth -- Pragmatism and realism: a modest proposal -- Does race have a future? -- Mathematical truth? -- Carnap and the caterpillar -- Philosophy inside out -- A pragmatist's progress: the varieties of James's strategies for defending religion -- Challenges for secularism -- Militant modern atheism -- Naturalistic ethics without fallacies -- The hall of mirrors -- Education, democracy, and capitalism -- Public knowledge and its discontents -- Varieties of altruism. 
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