Pragmatic Turn by Bernstein, Richard J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title page Copyright page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Preface Prologue 1 Charles S. Peirce’s Critique of Cartesianism

Intuitionism Thought and Signs The Pragmatic Alternative

2 The Ethical Consequences of William James’s Pragmatic Pluralism

James’s Pluralism James’s Ethical Concern James’s Political Interventions James’s Pluralistic Legacy: Horace Kallen and Alain Locke

3 John Dewey’s Vision of Radical Democracy

The Ethics of Democracy Democratic Faith Democracy is Radical The Failures of Democracy Beyond Communitarianism and Liberalism The Role of Conflict in Democratic Politics Democracy, Social Cooperation, and Education Dewey’s Contemporary Relevance

4 Hegel and Pragmatism

Dewey’s Early Hegelianism Peirce’s Ambivalence toward Hegel James: Hegel’s “Abominable Habits of Speech” The Revival of Interest in Hegel Sellars: “Incipient Meditations Hegeliènnes” The “Pittsburgh Hegelians”: McDowell and Brandom

5 Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Truth

The Correspondence Theory of Truth? A Pragmatic Account of Objectivity Ideal Justification and Truth Truth and Justification without Regulative Ideals Brandom’s Contribution Realist Intuitions?

6 Experience after the Linguistic Turn

Peirce: Three Categorial Aspects of Experience James: The Varieties of Experience Dewey: The Darwinian Naturalization of Hegel Experience and the Linguistic Turn Again

7 Hilary Putnam: The Entanglement of Fact and Value

The Context of Putnam’s Thesis Cognitive Values Ethical and Political Values Moral Objectivity Objectivity, Moral Realism, and Democratic Openness

8 Jürgen Habermas’s Kantian Pragmatism

Kant Detranscendentalized Truth and Normative Rightness The Epistemic Conception of Truth Neither Contextualism nor Idealism Moral Rightness Action and Discourse Moral Constructivism and Epistemological Realism Janus-Faced Truth? Moral Constructivism Again Why Habermas Rejects Moral Realism

9 Richard Rorty’s Deep Humanism

Rorty’s Early Metaphysical Explorations The Linguistic Turn Doubts about Analytic Philosophy Public Liberalism and Private Irony Rorty’s Humanism Some Doubts about Rorty’s Humanism

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