Perspectives on Pragmatism : Classical, Recent, and Contemporary / Robert B. Brandom.
Brandom, Robert B., author.
2011
B832
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Title Perspectives on Pragmatism : Classical, Recent, and Contemporary / Robert B. Brandom.
Author Brandom, Robert B., author.
ISBN 9780674270572
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674270572
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (248 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674270572 doi
Call Number B832
Summary Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. This book, by one of today's most distinguished contemporary heirs of pragmatist philosophy, rereads cardinal figures in that tradition, distilling from their insights a way forward from where we are now. Perspectives on Pragmatism opens with a new accounting of what is living and what is dead in the first three generations of classical American pragmatists, represented by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post-Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. Sellars' legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, Richard Rorty, who further developed James's and Dewey's ideas within the professional discipline of philosophy and once more succeeded, as they had, in showing the more general importance of those ideas not only for intellectuals outside philosophy but for the wider public sphere. The book closes with a clear description of the author's own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad pragmatism with its dominant philosophical rival, analytic philosophy, which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its origins and its promise for tomorrow.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: From German Idealism to American Pragmatism- and Back
1. Classical American Pragmatism: The Pragmatist Enlightenment- and Its Problematic Semantics
2. Analyzing Pragmatism: Pragmatics and Pragmatisms
3. A Kantian Rationalist Pragmatism: Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism
4. Linguistic Pragmatism and Pragmatism about Norms: An Arc of Thought from Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to His Pragmatism
5. Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism
6. Toward an Analytic Pragmatism: Meaning- Use Analysis
7. Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Anti- Representationalism: Local and Global Possibilities
Acknowledgments
Index of Names
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