Bibliograph

The American pragmatists, Cheryl Misak

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The American pragmatists, Cheryl Misak

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The American pragmatists

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

830346428

Responsibility statement

Cheryl Misak

Series statement

Oxford history of philosophy

Summary

Presents a history of the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism from its inception in the Metaphysical Club (Cambridge, MA) of the 1870s to present

Table Of Contents

The founders of pragmatism. Pragmatist themes in early American thought -- Chauncey Wright (1830-75) -- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) -- William James (1842-1910) -- Fellow travelers -- The middle period. The reception of early American pragmatism -- John Dewey (1859-1952) -- Fellow Travelers -- The path to the twenty-first century. The rise of logical empiricism -- Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) -- Willard van Orman Quine (1908-2000) -- Fellow travelers -- Richard Rorty (1931-2007) -- Hilary Putnam (1926- ) -- The current debates

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