Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the publication of their first co-authored article in 2005, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse have argued for a distinctive, yet controversial, version of pragmatism. This book sets out for the first time a cohesive, unified, and integrated statement on Aikin and Talisse's distinctive strand of pragmatist philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351811316
• Artikelnr.: 50143279

Autorenporträt

Scott F. Aikin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily on pragmatism, epistemology, and argumentation theory. He has written more than fifty scholarly essays, and he has authored two books: Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2011) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014).



Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Political Science, and Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on pragmatism and contemporary political philosophy. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, and several books, including Democracy and Moral Conflict (2009) and Engaging Political Philosophy (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Cheryl Misak
1. Introduction: The Problems of Pragmatist Philosophers
Part I. Encounters with the Classical Idiom
2. Peirce's Mixed Theory of Epistemic Justification
3. Fixing Belief as Epistemic Conduct
4. Clifford's Pragmatism and the Will to Believe
5. James's Moral Philosophy
6. What is Living and What is Dead in Deweyan Political Theory
Part II. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy
7. Against Triumphalism: Defending Analytic Pragmatism
8. Metaphilosophical Creep
9. Pragmatist Metaphilosophy and Skepticism
Part III. Pragmatist Proposals
10. Can Pragmatist be Pluralists?
11. The Ethics of Inquiry
12. Global Expressivism: Is it Still Cool?
13. On a Certain Blindness in Pragmatist Political Philosophy
14. Public Argument in a Free Society
15. Epilogue: Pragmatism as Minimalist Metaphilosophy