Pragmatism: An Open Question

Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Number Of Pages: 106
Publication Date: 1995-01
Sales Rank: 4920546
ISBN / ASIN: 0631193421
EAN: 9780631193425
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Blackwell Pub
Studio: Blackwell Pub
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Book Description:

Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to pragmatism - and confronts the teachings of James, Peirce, Dewey, and Wittgenstein - not solely out of an interest in theoretical questions, but above all to respond to the questions of whether it is possible to find an alternative to corrosive moral skepticism, on the one hand, and to moral authoritarianism on the other.