Preludes to pragmatism
Subtitle: toward a reconstruction of philosophy
By: Philip Kitcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780199899555
Subjects: Pragmatism
Description: Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of little interest to the wider world. What is the future of philosophy, and what would it look like? These essays try to install the pragmatic spirit into contemporary philosophy, renewing James and Dewey for our own times.
Notes: Includes index.