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Cambridge pragmatism : from Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein / Cheryl Misak

Author:
Misak, C. J. (Cheryl J.)
Published:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:
First edition.
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cambridge Massachusetts -- 1.Peirce -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.The Pragmatic Maxim: Meaning, Use, Practice -- 1.3.Belief and Disposition -- 1.4.Truth -- 1.5.Experience: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Religion, and Morals -- 1.6.Logic and Probability -- 1.7.Regulative Assumptions and the Principle of Bivalence -- 2.James -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Psychology: Observation and Experience -- 2.3.Truth and Usefulness -- 2.4.Willing to Believe -- 2.5.Religious Experience -- 2.6.James on Common Sense -- 3.Bridges across the Atlantic -- 3.1.F. C. S. Schiller -- 3.2.Victoria Welby -- 3.3.C. K. Ogden -- pt. II Cambridge England -- 4.The Anti-Pragmatism of Pre-War Cambridge -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.The Revolt against Idealism: The Early Moore and Russell on Propositions and Reality -- 4.3.Russell's Logical Atomism -- 4.4.Russell's Attack on Pragmatism -- 4.5.Moore's Contribution -- 4.6.The Wittgenstein of the Tractatus -- 4.7.Wittgenstein's Intersections with the Vienna Circle -- 5.The Pull of Pragmatism on Russell -- 5.1.Russell at Harvard -- 5.2.New Thoughts about Experience, Belief, and Meaning -- 5.3.The Analysis of Mind -- 6.Ramsey -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.The Undergraduate Ramsey and the Tractatus -- 6.3.The Undergraduate Ramsey's Response to Russell -- 6.4.The 1927 Ramsey: Belief, Action, Probability, Truth -- 6.5.Philosophy and Meaninglessness -- 6.6.`General Propositions and Causality' -- 6.7.On Truth -- 6.8.Ethics and Pragmatist Naturalism -- 6.9.A Step beyond the Redundancy Theory to the Pragmatist Theory of Truth -- 7.Wittgenstein: Post-Tractatus -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Wittgenstein and Ramsey, 1929 -- 7.3.Wittgenstein's 1929 Pragmatism -- 7.4.The Primacy of Practice and Meaning as Use -- 7.5.Truth -- 7.6.Rule-Following, Privacy, and Behaviour -- 7.7.Religion, Ethics, and Forms of Life -- 7.8.On Doubt and Certainty.
Summary:
Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the reception of American pragmatism in England. Supposedly it never recovered from the attacks of Russell and Moore; but Misak shows that Frank Ramsey, under the influence of Peirce, developed a pragmatist position of great promise, and that he transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein.
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ISBN:
9780191780271 (ebook)
Audience Notes:
Specialized.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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