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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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37Ramsey'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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65Klein 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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Social and Political Philosophy |
The Nature of Philosophy |
American Pragmatism |