CAMBRIDGE PRAGMATISM C

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-871207-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways.

The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have liked what he saw.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Misak

Misak, Cheryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I Cambridge, Massachusetts

- 1: Peirce

- 2: James

- 3: Bridges across the Atlantic

- Part II Cambridge, England

- 4: The Anti-Pragmatism of Pre-War Cambridge

- 5: The Pull of Pragmatism on Russell

- 6: Ramsey

- 7: Wittgenstein: Post-Tractatus

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy, and former Provost, at the University of Toronto. She works on American Pragmatism, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine, and is the author of The American Pragmatists, Truth and the End of Inquiry, Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation, and Verificationism: Its History and Prospects.