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146 CS Peirce on Vital Matters1In The Cambridge companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press. pp. 150. 2004.
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10Scientific realism, anti-realism, and empiricismIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Pragmatism's Reputed Place in the Empiricist Tradition Peirce's Naturalist Account of Truth Pragmatism and Minimalism Experience: Physical, Mathematical, Metaphysical, and Moral.
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554Making Disagreement Matter: Pragmatism and Deliberative DemocracyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (1). 2004.
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230Peirce, Levi, and the aims of inquiryPhilosophy of Science 54 (2): 256-265. 1987.Isaac Levi uses C. S. Peirce's fallibilism as a foil for his own "epistemological infallibilism". I argue that Levi's criticisms of Peirce do not hit their target, and that the two pragmatists agree on the fundamental issues concerning background knowledge, certainty, revision of belief, and the aims of inquiry
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32Narrative evidence and evidence‐based medicineJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 392-397. 2010.
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14Isaac Levi and his pragmatist lineageIn Erik J. Olsson (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi, Cambridge University Press. pp. 18--31. 2006.
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1DS Clarke, Jr., Rational Acceptance and Purpose: An Outline of a Pragmatist Epistemology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (2): 52-54. 1990.
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44Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and DeliberationRoutledge. 1999.Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of pragmatism: a true belief is one upon which inquiry could not improve, a belief which would not be defeated by experience and argument. This account is not only an improvement on the views of central figures such as Rawls and Habermas, but it can also make sense of the idea that, despite conflict, pluralism, …Read more
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Anti-metaphysics II : verificationism and kindred viewsIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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39Ramsey's Cognitivism: Truth, Ethics and the Meaning of LifeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 251-263. 2016.Frank Ramsey is usually taken to be an emotivist or an expressivist about the good: he is usually taken to bifurcate inquiry into fact-stating and non-fact stating domains, ethics falling into the latter. In this paper I shall argue that whatever the very young Ramsey's view might have been, towards the end of his short life, he was coming to a through-going and objective pragmatism about all our beliefs, including those about the good, beauty, and even the meaning of life. Ethical beliefs are n…Read more
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11Pragmatism and Inquiry: Selected Essays, by Isaac Levi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 260 pp., ISBN13: 9780199698134, hb $65 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1). 2014.
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71Klein on James on the Will to BelieveHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1): 118-28. 2015.This commentary explores the disagreement between Alex Klein and Cheryl Misak about the core insights of American Pragmatism, against a background of agreement. Both take the history of early American pragmatism to be a vital part of the history of analytic philosophy, not a radical break with it. But Misak argues that James seeks to loosen the usual epistemic standards so that religious and scientific belief can both be justified by a unitary set of evidentiary rules, and Klein argues that Jame…Read more
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12William James: Pragmatism in focus: Doris Olin (ed.)(London: Routledge, 1992), viii+ 251 pp. ISBN 0-415-04057-4 Paperback£ 12.99, ISBN 0-415-04056-6 Hardback£ 40.00 (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (1): 123-129. 1994.
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24Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and WittgensteinOxford University Press UK. 2016.Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more and less objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, a…Read more
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254A culture of justification: The pragmatist's epistemic argument for democracyEpisteme 5 (1). 2008.The pragmatist view of politics is at its very heart epistemic, for it treats morals and politics as a kind of deliberation or inquiry, not terribly unlike other kinds of inquiry. With the exception of Richard Rorty, the pragmatists argue that morals and politics, like science, aim at the truth or at getting things right and that the best method for achieving this aim is a method they sometimes call the scientific method or the method of intelligence – what would now be termed deliberative democ…Read more
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172Pragmatism on solidarity, bullshit, and other deformities of truthMidwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (1): 111-121. 2008.No Abstract
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5Isaac Levi, The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing: Changing Beliefs Through Inquiry Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (3): 205-206. 1992.
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The reception of early American pragmatismIn The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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73Deflating TruthThe Monist 81 (3): 407-425. 1998.It seems that no philosopher these days wants a theory of truth which can be accused of being metaphysical. But even if we agree that grandiose metaphysics is to be spurned, even if we agree that our theory of truth should be a deflated one, the controversy does not die down. A variety of deflationist options present themselves. Some, with Richard Rorty, take the notion of truth to be so wedded to metaphysics that we are advised to drop it altogether. Others, with Paul Horwich, take the disquota…Read more
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C.F. Delaney, "Science, Knowledge, and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (3): 457. 1993.
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36Review of T. L. short, Peirce's Theory of Signs (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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35Language and Experience for PragmatismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2). 2014.It is sometimes said that contemporary pragmatists place too much emphasis on language and not enough on experience. This objection might hold for the pragmatism of Richard Rorty and his students, but it does not hold for the pragmatism of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. I shall argue that we should return to the classical pragmatists and their truth-and-experience position. Indeed, an important insight at the very heart of pragmatism is that language and experience cannot be pulled…Read more
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C.S. Peirce On Vital Matters: C. S. Peirce sobre assuntos vitaisCognitio 3. 2002.: C.S. Peirce is infamous for his assertion that the ideas of truth and belief are out of place in vital or ethical matters. We must go on instinct and custom. But he also asserts that his view of truth is applicable to ethics - a true belief about what is right or wrong is the belief that would stand up to all deliberation, experience and argument. I shall resolve this tension in Peirce's work in favor of the cognitivist reading. That is, I shall argue that Peirce presents us with an attractive…Read more
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61The American PragmatistsOxford University Press. 2013.Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the 1870s to the present day. She traces the connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy, and draws out the continuing influence of pragmatist ideas in the recent history of philosophy
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60The pragmatist view of politics is at its very heart epistemic, for it treats morals and politics as a kind of deliberation or inquiry, not terribly unlike other kinds of inquiry. With the exception of Richard Rorty, the pragmatists argue that morals and politics, like science, aim at the truth or at getting things right and that the best method for achieving this aim is a method they sometimes call the scientific method or the method of intelligence – what would now be termed deliberative democ…Read more
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