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The Pragmatics of IgnoranceIn Matthias Gross & Linsey McGoey (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Routledge. pp. 61-74. 2015.The goal of this chapter is to contribute to ignorance studies by taking advantage of the pragmatist epistemology of Peirce and Dewey, which, in my view, would be an “unfinished” business without facing sundry problems raised by ignorance studies. Five typical pragmatist claims provide the framework for this chapter. They can be endorsed by other philosophies, but their conjunction is typical of pragmatism: (1) the first is Peirce’s pragmatist maxim for clarifying our ideas, where the reference …Read more
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Department for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)
PhD, 2007
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
American Pragmatism |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
General Philosophy of Science |
Ignorance |
American Pragmatism |