The Pragmatism Reader (ebook)

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"[T]his is an excellent collection, not simply of pragmatist thinkers, but serious and substantive philosophers. Talisse and Aiken have done a truly fine job of exhibiting the contributions to first-order philosophy by pragmatist-oriented thinkers over the years and helping to dispel the notion that pragmatism has been on the sidelines of important philosophical work. I recommend it, not only as an introduction to pragmatism (indeed, more than an introduction), but also as a work of fecund philosophical engagement."--David Boersema, Essays in Philosophy

"With an excellent selection of papers by all the classical pragmatists and a very well judged collection of pieces by more recent philosophers sympathetic to pragmatism, this superb volume provides material for a successful course on pragmatism and also offers readers a fascinating overview of its varieties."--Christopher Hookway, University of Sheffield

"The alleged patterns of storied philosophies are always contestable, and contested. Do they reflect objective joints or only artificial impositions? This collection helps to show just how objective the pattern of pragmatism is, and how broad its scope. It is a welcome arrangement of skillfully selected contributions."--Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University

"An excellent collection. The Pragmatism Reader currently offers the best selection of writings from the pragmatist tradition, and successfully presents the movement as a continuous and coherent strain in twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy."--Henry Jackman, York University

"The Pragmatism Reader does a much better job of bringing into bold relief the continuities in the development of pragmatism from its inception to the present than does any other anthology. Talisse and Aikin's introduction is bold and original and helps the reader to see these strands of continuity among the different pieces included here."--Richard M. Gale, professor emeritus, University of Pittsburgh0Introduction 1
Charles S. Peirce
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 12
The Fixation of Belief 37
How to Make Our Ideas Clear 50
William James
Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results 66
Pragmatism?s Conception of Truth 79
The Will to Believe 92
John Dewey
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy 109
The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy 141
Creative Democracy-The Task before Us 150
Sidney Hook
The Democratic Way of Life 155
C.I. Lewis
A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori 166
Nelson Goodman
Words, Works, Worlds 174
The New Riddle of Induction 188
W.V.O. Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism 202
On What There Is 221
Natural Kinds 234
Rudolf Carnap
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology 249
Wilfrid Sellars
Language as Thought and Communication 265
Donald Davidson
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 286
Hilary Putnam
Meaning and Reference 299
Realism with a Human Face 309
A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy 331
Richard Rorty
The World Well Lost 353
Solidarity or Objectivity? 367
The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy 381
Cornel West
Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought 403
Susan Haack
Double-Aspect Foundherentism: A New Theory of
Empirical Justification 407
Richard A. Posner
Pragmatic Adjudication 423
Robert Brando m
From Truth to Semantics: A Path through Making It Explicit 440
Huw Price
Truth as a Convenient Friction 451
Cheryl Misak
Making Disagreement Matter: Pragmatism and
Deliberative Democracy 471
Credits 485
Index 487