New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Edited by Rosa M. Calcaterra

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 228
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The strong influence of pragmatism in the early 20th-century international debate, its subsequent and apparently inexorable decline, and its recent revival are intertwined with the fate of other currents of thought that have marked the development of contemporary philosophy. This volume clarifies the most recent events of this development focusing on key theoretical issues common both to American classic philosophical tradition and analytical thought. Many essays in this volume belong to what we can call "new" pragmatism, namely a pragmatist perspective that is different from the postmodernist "neo" pragmatism ? la Rorty. The volume shows that both pragmatists and analytic thinkers stress the importance of logic and scientific method in order to deal with philosophical problems and seek for a clarification of the relation between our ethical values and our understanding of natural facts. Moreover, the anti-skeptic attitude that characterizes pragmatism as well as most part of analytic philosophy, and their common attention to the problems of language and communication are emphasized. The more sophisticated tools for addressing both theoretical and methodological problems developed by analytic philosophy are pointed out, and the essays show the possible integration of these two forms of speculation that, for too a long time, mutually disregarded one another.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 21
1. Introduction......Page 22
2. Scientism, Anti-naturalism, and Pragmatism......Page 23
3. What’s the Use of Calling Wittgenstein a Pragmatist?......Page 27
4. A Step Back to View the Larger Context......Page 32
5. The Philosophical Recovery of the
Everyday World/The Mundane Reorientation of
Philosophical Investigation......Page 33
6. Conclusion......Page 36
1. Introduction......Page 42
3. The Features of Scientific Naturalism......Page 45
4. The Scientistic Character of Scientific Naturalism......Page 48
5. Some Criticisms of Scientific Naturalism......Page 49
6. The Premises of Scientific Naturalism Again......Page 51
THREE The Entanglement of Ethics and Logic
in Peirce’s Pragmatism......Page 56
1. Are Popes Infallible?......Page 65
2. Transatlantic Truth......Page 66
3. Pacific Truth......Page 69
4. The Automatic Sweetheart......Page 73
5. The Sun and The Moon......Page 75
FIVE Action and Representation in Peirce’s Pragmatism......Page 80
2. A Realistic View of Semiotics......Page 89
3. Semiotics and Pragmatism......Page 93
4. Conclusion......Page 97
SEVEN Wittgenstein, Dewey, and Peirce on Ethics......Page 101
EIGHT Different Pragmatist Reactions to Analytic Philosophy......Page 118
NINE Pragmatism and Intention-in-Action......Page 135
1. Introduction......Page 145
2. Metaphors We Steer By......Page 147
3. Inferentialism vs. Representationalism......Page 151
4. “A sentence says just one thing.”......Page 155
About the Contributors......Page 161
Index......Page 165