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Truth and the End of Inquiry

A Peircean Account of Truth

By: Cheryl J. Misak

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Truth and the End of Inquiry

A Peircean Account of Truth

By: Cheryl J. Misak

Cheryl Misak presents a pragmatic account of truth. C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In the course of the past century pragmatism has remained one of the most significant movements in American philosophy. Misak's book is one of the landmark publications in recent pragmatist thought. She pays attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements for asuitable account of truth. This new paperback edition includes a brand-new additional chapter, along with a new preface and revis.

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Clarendon Press

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0199270597

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Cambridge Pragmatism

From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

By: Cheryl J. Misak

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Cambridge Pragmatism

From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

By: Cheryl J. Misak

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 (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have liked what he saw.

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Oxford University Press

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0198712073

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9780198712077

Verificationism

Its History and Prospects

By: Cheryl J. Misak

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Verificationism

Its History and Prospects

By: Cheryl J. Misak

Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and 1960s, surveying the precursors, the main proponents and the rehabilitators.

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Psychology Press

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0415125979

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9780415125970

Frank Ramsey

A Sheer Excess of Powers

By: Cheryl J. Misak

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Frank Ramsey

A Sheer Excess of Powers

By: Cheryl J. Misak

Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells the story of his extraordinary life and intellectual achievement.

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019875535X

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9780198755357

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Truth and the End of Inquiry

Truth and the End of Inquiry

Cambridge Pragmatism

Cambridge Pragmatism

Verificationism

Verificationism

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