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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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13Making Disagreement MatterIn Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin (eds.), The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce Through the Present, Princeton University Press. pp. 471-484. 2011.
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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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11Criterialism versus DeliberativismPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (3): 408-414. 2018.I was one of the group that produced “An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units”. I do not write on that group’s behalf, but rather from two distinct perspectives which converge onto one view. First, I am a philosopher who thinks about our most pressing questions, such as how to make treatment decisions when a life is coming to an end. From that perspective, three of us from the group …Read more
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111 Charles Sanders Peirce 1839-1914)In C. J. Misak (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1. 2004.
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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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10Scientific realism, anti-realism, and empiricismIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, 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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9Wittgenstein and PragmatismIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.The question of the affinity between Wittgenstein's philosophy and pragmatism is one that has been often discussed, usually by philosophers sympathetic to a broadly affirmative answer. Pragmatism came into being in 1867 in a reading group in Cambridge Massachusetts, the members of which included Peirce and James. Putnam observes that though the later Wittgenstein may not have been a pragmatist “in the strict sense”, he “shares a central, perhaps the central emphasis with pragmatism: the emphasis…Read more
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9Pragmatism on Solidarity, Bullshit, and other Deformities of TruthIn Felicia Ackerman (ed.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1981.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Jamesian/Rortyian Pragmatist Account of Truth The Peircean Account of Truth Genuine Belief and Deformed Belief References.
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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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5Wittgenstein, Ramsey and the Vienna CircleIn Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Springer Verlag. pp. 209-221. 2023.This paper will explore the engagement of Wittgenstein, Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (mostly Schlick and Carnap) in the 1920s. This is before Wittgenstein became what we know as the later Wittgenstein and one upshot of the paper will be that it was Ramsey who turned Wittgenstein away from the quest for a pure and objective language (a quest he shared with the Vienna Circle) and turned him towards the pragmatist idea that meaning is bound up with use.
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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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4PragmatismCalgary : University of Calgary Press. 1999.This volume collects some of the very best recent work on pragmatism, the view that philosophical theories must be connected to practical consequences, from both self-styled pragmatists and from those whose positions merely have affinities with pragmatism. The essays, which cover both classical pragmatism and contemporary approaches, focus on epistemology and moral/political philosophy.
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1PeirceIn W. H. Newton‐Smith (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2017.Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is generally acknowledged to be America's greatest philosopher, although he was never able to secure a permanent academic position and died in poverty and obscurity (see Brent 1993). He founded pragmatism, the view that a philosophical theory must be connected to practice. The pragmatic account of truth, for which he is perhaps best known, thus has it that a true belief is one which the practice of inquiry, no matter how far it were to be pursued, would not imp…Read more
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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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The reception of early American pragmatismIn The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Ramsey's 1929 pragmatismIn Cheryl Misak & Huw Price (eds.), The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century, Oup/ba. 2016.
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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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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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Peirce's thwarted careerIn Cornelis De Waal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Charles S. Peirce, Oxford University Press. 2024.
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Ch. 38. Pragmatism and analytic philosophyIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Nothing scoundrelous about truthIn Melissa Schwartzberg & Philip Kitcher (eds.), Truth and evidence, Nyu Press. 2021.
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James and British analytic philosophyIn Alexander Mugar Klein (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of William James, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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