
Varieties of Pragmatism : Truth, Realism, and Knowledge from James to Rorty.
Title:
Varieties of Pragmatism : Truth, Realism, and Knowledge from James to Rorty.
Author:
McDermid, Douglas.
ISBN:
9781847141309
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (185 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Pragmatism and Epistemology: Deconstruction or Reconstruction? -- Part I: Pragmatism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth -- 2 The Decline and Fall of Correspondence -- 3 Keeping Reality in Mind: The Comparison Objection -- 4 Neither Worldmakers nor Mirrors: The Constructivist Objection -- 5 Towards a Pragmatist Epistemology -- Part II: Neo-Pragmatism and Epistemology -- 6 Rorty's Brave New Pragmatism -- 7 Anti-Foundationalism - From the Ground Up -- 8 Anti-Representationalism and Its Discontents -- Epilogue: In Defense of a Myth -- Appendices -- A: Rorty on Truth -- B: Putnam on Kant and the Coherence Theory of Truth -- C: James and Dewey on Correspondence: Deniers or Demystifiers? -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term:
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Click to View