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Preludes to pragmatism : toward a reconstruction of philosophy /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitcher, Philip, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Pragmatism.
Pragmatisme.
pragmatism.
Pragmatism
Electronic books.
E-books.
E-reference.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.