Pragmatism and reference
By: David Boersema.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780262026604
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Reference (Philosophy); Pragmatism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The descriptivist/cluster account; title: The causal account; title: A Wittgensteinian account; title: The big three (Peirce, James, Dewey); title: Contemporary American (Putnam, Elgin, Rorty); title: Across the pond (Eco, Apel, Habermas); title: Individuation and similarity; title: Haecceities and essentialism; title: Neptune and nemesis.