Oxford Pragmatism

NOTE EDITORE

Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on the Oxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected British analytic philosopher and excellent scholar of American pragmatism, delivered core pragmatist ideas to her friend Ryle: the mind as a set of dispositions to behave; laws as 'inference tickets', and the distinction between knowing that something is true and knowing how to do something. Macdonald found these ideas in the work of the founder of pragmatism C. S. Peirce and his two most impressive followers, Clarence Irving Lewis in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Frank Ramsey in Cambridge, England. Ryle, it is argued, picked them up from Macdonald, though failed to acknowledge them as hers or as pragmatist. A lineage is also traced from American pragmatism to Austin's ideas that when we use words we perform actions, and that definitions must be fit for purpose. This route runs from Peirce and Lewis to Austin and through to contemporary conceptual engineers who follow in Austin's footsteps. Along the way, the views of Wittgenstein, Russell, Schiller, Ayer, and Cook Wilson are canvassed and assessed. In a Postscript, Misak outlines how pragmatism played out in the next generation of Oxford philosophers, such as Strawson and Wiggins.

SOMMARIO

1 - C. S. Peirce: Meaning, Action, Habit2 - C. I. Lewis: The Web of Belief3 - The Pack Ice of Logical Theory4 - Russell's Pragmatism(!)5 - Ramsey's Pragmatism6 - Wittgenstein Turns His Back on the Tractatus7 - Wittgenstein on Grammar and Rule Following8 - F. C. S. Schiller: 'Altogether beyond the Pale'9 - Cook Wilson and Prichard10 - The Early Ryle: The Rise of Oxford Analytic Philosophy11 - A. J. Ayer12 - Margaret Macdonald13 - Tracking Ryle's Shift to Pragmatism14 - Knowing How and Knowing That15 - Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine16 - Rule Following and Laws as Inference Tickets17 - Austin's Linguistic Method18 - Unearthing the Influences on Austin19 - To Say Something Is to Do Something20 - Austin and Pragmatism21 - Postscript: The Next Generation

AUTORE

Cheryl Misak is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She works on American pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198875888
• Dimensioni: 240 x 26.0 x 163 mm Ø 647 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 336