Pragmatism
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Pragmatism

The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots

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Pragmatism

The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots

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Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. Pragmatism was intended, by Charles S. Peirce, its founder, as a doctrine for the rational substantiation of knowledge claims. For Peirce, what mattered was successful prediction and control. Practice was to serve as the arbiter of theory. Objective efficacy, not personal satisfaction, is what matters for fixing opinion in a community of rational inquirers.According to Nicholas Rescher, later pragmatists saw the matter differently. They envisioned subjective satisfactions, rather than objectively determinable functional effectiveness, as being the aim of the enterprise. Rescher notes that William James, in particular, had an agenda different from that of Peirce.The two pragmatisms are complete opposites, Rescher argues, in terms of claims and intentions. James's soft pragmatism abandons the classical idea of inquiry as the paramount of truth; it believes that truth is an illusion, an unrealizable figment of the imagination. By contrast, Peirce's hard pragmatism believes that the classic idea of truth remains valid. Rescher seeks to examine and explore pragmatism dialectically, with a conviction that brings pragmatism to life for specialist and generalist alike.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351497251
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction: Pragmatism at the Crossroads
  7. 1 Pragmatism and Purpose
  8. 2 Pragmatism and Language
  9. 3 Pragmatism, Cognition, and Truth
  10. 4 Pragmatism and Rational Inquiry
  11. 5 Pragmatism and the Aims of Science
  12. 6 A Pragmatic Justification of Induction
  13. 7 Pragmatism and Logic
  14. 8 Pragmatism and Philosophy
  15. 9 Morality, Pragmatism, and the Obligations of Personhood
  16. 10 The Pragmatism of Ideals
  17. 11 Political Pragmatism
  18. 12 Pragmatic Realism in Metaphysics
  19. 13 Pragmatism and Art
  20. 14 Pragmatism in Religion (The Case of Pascal)
  21. 15 Objections to Pragmatism
  22. 16 Pragmatism’s Historical Development
  23. References
  24. Index of Names