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" Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism. "
By Christopher Hookway.
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1030141
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b784511
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Hookway, Christopher.
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Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism. : Themes from Peirce.\ By Christopher Hookway.
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2002.
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1 online resource (322 pages)
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0198238363
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: 0199256586
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: 1281989029
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: 9780198238362
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: 9780199256587
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: 9781281989024
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Belief, confidence, and the method of science -- Truth and the convergence of opinion -- Truth and correspondence -- Truth and reference: Peirce versus Royce -- Vagueness, logic, and interpretation -- Design and chance: the evolution of Perice's evolutionary cosomology -- Metaphysics, science, and self-control -- Common sense, pragmatism, and rationality -- Sentiment and self control -- Doubt: affective states, and the regulation of inquiry -- On reading God's great poem -- Avoiding circularity and proving pragmatism.
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Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes centre on the question how we are able to investigate the world rationally; Peirce's ideas about this continue to play an important role in philosophy, logic, and semiotics, as Hookway shows. After an extended examination of Peirce's account of truth, and of its relations to his ideas about logic, reference, and representation, Hookway discusses his claim that rationality requires a system of 'scientific metaphysics'. The second half of the book studies the role of common sense, sentiments, and emotions in rationality. It concludes with discussions of Peirce's approach to religious belief and the role of pragmatism in his thought. These compelling essays (many of them published here for the first time) present the fruits of fifteen years of research on Peirce, but do so in a way that makes his ideas accessible and relevant for philosophers who are not specialists in the history of American thought. The introduction offers a general sketch of Peirce's philosophy as a way into the book for such readers, and draws together the themes of the essays.
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Peirce, Charles S., (Charles Sanders),1839-1914.
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Peirce, Charles S., (Charles Sanders),1839-1914.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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191
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B945.P44H67 2002eb
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Oxford University Press.
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