Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

by Cheryl Misak

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019882260X
• ISBN13: 9780198822608
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"