{"product_id":"rethinking-pragmatism-isbn-9781119052432","title":"Rethinking Pragmatism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. It clarifies pragmatic ideas and arguments spelling out the significant implications they have for present-day philosophical controversies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the work of the American Pragmatists, especially James and Dewey, on the issues of truth, reference, meaning, instrumentalism, essences, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe only available publication to provide a detailed commentary on James's book, \u003ci\u003ePragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e, while exploring the implications of the American Pragmatists' ideas and arguments for contemporary philosophical issues\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges standard readings of the American Pragmatists' positions in a way that illuminates and questions the assumptions underlying current discussions of these topics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCoherently arranged by structuring the book around the themes discussed in each chapter of James's original work.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a new analysis and understanding of the pragmatic theory of truth and semantics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Acknowledgments viii \u003cp\u003eBibliographic Key ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBackground Themes 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Place of Values in Inquiry (Lecture I) 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Pragmatic Maxim and Pragmatic Instrumentalism (Lecture II) 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Substance and Other Metaphysical Claims (Lecture III) 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Materialism, Physicalism, and Reduction (Lecture IV) 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V) 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Pragmatic Semantics and Pragmatic Truth (Lecture VI) 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Worldmaking (Lecture VII) 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Belief, Hope, and Conjecture (Lecture VIII) 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has taught at Rockefeller University and CUNY and has been a visiting professor at, amongst others, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVision: Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1994) and \u003ci\u003eVisual Versions\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2006) and the editor of \u003ci\u003ePerception\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2004). He has published numerous articles developing pragmatic approaches to issues in epistemology, language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRethinking Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched readings of their views on truth, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism, and religious beliefs. Schwartz takes James’s work as the basis for his discussion. His detailed commentary on James’s \u003ci\u003ePragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e, which Schwartz uses as a scaffold for rethinking pragmatic themes and arguments more generally, looks ahead rather than back. In terms that have significant implications for current philosophical controversies, \u003ci\u003eRethinking Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e explains why the Pragmatists rejected meanings, fixed reference, and metaphysical necessity, but did \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e reject theoretical entities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost significantly, it provides a perspective on the pragmatic theory of truth that shows, for example, why James readily admits that truth is “agreement with reality,” and why Dewey praises Tarski’s work on truth as a breakthrough in semantic theory. Schwartz also links the Pragmatists’ reasons for rejecting nineteenth-century positivism to twentieth-century challenges to logical positivism. The result is a book that coherently unfolds James’s work, while demonstrating the contemporary relevance of the American Pragmatists’ ideas and arguments to debates about the nature of inquiry, language, and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989957198053,"sku":"NP9781119052432","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119052432.jpg?v=1761786024","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/rethinking-pragmatism-isbn-9781119052432","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}