Pragmatic Turn

Name: Pragmatic Turn
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ISBN: 9780745649085

ISBN-10: 0745649084

ISBN-13: 9780745649085

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard J. Bernstein

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In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a thoroughgoing critique of the Cartesianism that dominated so much of modern philosophy. The pragmatic thinkers reject a sharp dichotomy between subject and object, mind-body dualism, the quest for certainty and the spectator theory of knowledge. They seek to bring about a sea change in philosophy that highlights the social character of human experience and…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 3/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Prologue



Charles S. Peirce's Critique of Cartesianism



The Ethical Consequences of William James's Pragmatic Pluralism



John Dewey's Vision of Radical Democracy



Hegel and Pragmatism



Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Truth



Experience after the Linguistic Turn



Hilary Putnam: The Entanglement of Fact and Value



Jï¿½rgen Habermas's Kantian Pragmatism



Richard Rorty's Deep Humanism


Notes


References


Name Index


Subject Index