Pragmatism and inquiry selected essays
Title:
Pragmatism and inquiry selected essays
Author:
Levi, Isaac, 1930-
ISBN:
9780191742323
9780191654824
9781283602013
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
Corrigibilism without solidarity -- Inquiry, deliberation, and method -- Pragmatism and change of view -- Beware of syllogism : statistical reasoning and conjecturing according to Peirce -- Dewey's logic of inquiry -- Wayward naturalism : saving Dewey from himself -- Seeking truth -- The logic of consistency and the logic of truth -- Belief, doubt, and evidentialism -- Induction, abduction, and oracles -- Knowledge as true full belief.
Abstract:
This volume presents a series of essays on the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. Isaac Levi draws upon the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey to investigate what justifies change in belief.
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