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Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy Scott F. Aikin

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy By Scott F. Aikin

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy by Scott F. Aikin


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Since the publication of their first co-authored article in 2005, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse have argued for a distinctive, yet controversial, version of pragmatism. This book sets out for the first time a cohesive, unified, and integrated statement on Aikin and Talisse's distinctive strand of pragmatist philosophy.

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy Summary

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy by Scott F. Aikin

For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that originates in the work of the classical pragmatisms of Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, uninterruptedly develops through the later 20th Century pragmatists (C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, Nelson Goodman, W. V. O. Quine), and continues through the present day. According to Aikin and Talisse, pragmatism is fundamentally a metaphilosophical proposal - a methodological suggestion for carrying inquiry forward amidst ongoing deep disagreement over the aims, limitations, and possibilities of philosophy. This conception of pragmatism not only runs contrary to the dominant self-understanding among cotemporary philosophers who identify with the classical pragmatists, it also holds important implications for pragmatist philosophy. In particular, Aikin and Talisse show that their version of pragmatism involves distinctive claims about epistemic justification, moral disagreement, democratic citizenship, and the conduct of inquiry. The chapters combine detailed engagements with the history and development of pragmatism with original argumentation aimed at a philosophical audience beyond pragmatism.

About Scott F. Aikin

Scott F. Aikin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily on pragmatism, epistemology, and argumentation theory. He has written more than fifty scholarly essays, and he has authored two books: Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2011) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014).

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Political Science, and Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on pragmatism and contemporary political philosophy. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, and several books, including Democracy and Moral Conflict (2009) and Engaging Political Philosophy (2016).

Table of Contents

Foreword Cheryl Misak

1. Introduction: The Problems of Pragmatist Philosophers

Part I. Encounters with the Classical Idiom

2. Peirce's Mixed Theory of Epistemic Justification

3. Fixing Belief as Epistemic Conduct

4. Clifford's Pragmatism and the Will to Believe

5. James's Moral Philosophy

6. What is Living and What is Dead in Deweyan Political Theory

Part II. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy

7. Against Triumphalism: Defending Analytic Pragmatism

8. Metaphilosophical Creep

9. Pragmatist Metaphilosophy and Skepticism

Part III. Pragmatist Proposals

10. Can Pragmatist be Pluralists?

11. The Ethics of Inquiry

12. Global Expressivism: Is it Still Cool?

13. On a Certain Blindness in Pragmatist Political Philosophy

14. Public Argument in a Free Society

15. Epilogue: Pragmatism as Minimalist Metaphilosophy

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NLS9780367594114
9780367594114
0367594110
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy by Scott F. Aikin
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2020-08-14
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