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157The Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, WittgensteinJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (5). 2016.An underappreciated fact in the history of analytic philosophy is that American pragmatism had an early and strong influence on the Vienna Circle. The path of that influence goes from Charles Peirce to Frank Ramsey to Ludwig Wittgenstein to Moritz Schlick. That path is traced in this paper, and along the way some standard understandings of Ramsey and Wittgenstein, especially, are radically altered.
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6Reply to Margolis, Madelrieux and LevineEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 5 (2). 2013.Allow me to begin by thanking these three commentators for the time and energy they have put into thinking about the issues I raise in The American Pragmatists. There are some important common themes in their reading of the book and I am grateful for the opportunity to address them, and to clarify and expand on what I wrote. One thing that common to all three readers is that they see me as offering, in Stéphane Madelrieux’s words, a history of pragmatism that is both descriptive and normative...
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41Pragmatism and the Transcendental Turn in Truth and EthicsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4). 1994.
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