Isaac Levi

Pragmatism and Inquiry

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a series of essays on the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. Isaac Levi draws upon the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey to investigate what justifies change in belief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199698134
• ISBN-10: 0199698139
• Artikelnr.: 36949094

Autorenporträt

Isaac Levi is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of many journal articles and reviews, and his books include The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought, and For the Sake of the Argument: Ramsey Test Conditionals, Inductive Inference and Nonmonotonic Reasoning.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Corrigibilism without Solidarity
2: Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method
3: Pragmatism and Change of View
4: Beware of Syllogism: Statistical Reasoning and Conjecturing According to Peirce
5: Dewey's Logic of Inquiry
6: Wayward Naturalism: Saving Dewey from Himself
7: Seeking Truth
8: The Logic of Consistency and the Logic of Truth
9: Belief, Doubt, and Evidentialism
10: Induction, Abduction, and Oracles
11: Knowledge as True Full Belief
References
Index