Pragmatism, Old And New
Subtitle: Selected Writings
Contributors: Susan Haack (Editor); Robert Lane (Editor)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781591023593
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Movements - Pragmatism; Philosophy; Pragmatism; History & Surveys - General; General
First sentence: Descartes is the father of modern philosophy, and the spirit of Cartesianism-that which principally distinguishes it from the scholasticism which it displaced-may be compendiously stated as follows: 1. It teaches that philosophy must begin with universal doubt; whereas scholasticism had never questioned fundamentals.