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The varieties of pragmatism : truth, realism, and knowledge from James to Rorty /

For much of the twentieth century, many Anglo-American philosophers supported three theses - one about reality, one about truth, and one about human knowledge - that, taken together, underwrote debates in epistemology. The first was realism: the commonsensical-sounding view that the world of physica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDermid, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006.
Colección:Continuum studies in American philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pragmatism and epistemology : deconstruction or reconstruction?
  • The decline and fall of correspondence
  • Keeping reality in mind : the comparison objection
  • Neither worldmakers nor mirrors : the constructivist objection
  • Towards a pragmatist epistemology
  • Rorty's brave new pragmatism
  • Anti-foundationalism : from the ground up
  • Anti-representationalism and its discontents.