The American Pragmatists

by Cheryl Misak

Overview

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. This ambitious new account identifies the connections between traditional American pragmatism and contemporary philosophy and argues that the most defensible version of pragmatism -- roughly, that of Peirce, Lewis, and Sellars -- must be seen and recovered as an important part of the analytic tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191057373
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Series:	The Oxford History of Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	587 KB

About the Author

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy, as well as Vice-President and Provost at the University of Toronto. She received a BA from the University of Lethbridge, an MA from Columbia University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She works on American pragmatism, the theory of truth, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine. She has published and edited books with Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press, and has published over forty scholarly articles. In 2008, her 'Experience, Narrative, and Ethical Deliberation' was declared one of the ten best papers in philosophy by The Philosopher's Annual. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, a Visiting Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge, and a Rhodes Scholar.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Trajectory of American Pragmatism
• PART I THE FOUNDERS OF PRAGMATISM
• 1: Pragmatist Themes in Early American Thought
• 2: Chauncey Wright (1830-1875)
• 3: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
• 4: William James (1842-1910)
• 5: Fellow Travelers
• PART II: THE MIDDLE PERIOD
• 6: The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
• 7: John Dewey (1859-1952)
• 8: Fellow Travelers
• PART III THE PATH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• 9: The Rise of Logical Empiricism
• 10: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964)
• 11: Willard van Orman Quine (1908-2000)
• 12: Fellow Travellers
• 13: Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
• 14: Hilary Putnam (1926 - )
• 15: The Current Debates
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index