Practical Turn
Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780197266168
- ISBN-100197266169
- Library of Congress Control Number2018285199
- OCLC Control Number1004762612
- Better World Books9780197266168
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28858664M
Classifications
- LCCB832
- LCCB832 .P73 2017
- LCCAS122 .L5 v. 210
Description
"American pragmatism, born in the 1870s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has as its central insight the idea that our philosophical concepts of truth, knowledge, probability, and so on must start with, and remain linked to, human experience and inquiry. This book traces and assesses the strong influence of American pragmatism on British philosophy, with particular emphasis on Cambridge during the inter-war period, on post-war Oxford, and on recent developments. Most philosophers would say that American pragmatism received only a hostile reception in England when the ideas first travelled across the Atlantic. But this volume argues that the movement of pragmatist ideas in Britain was a strong and important current, cutting new channels to fruitful ways of thinking about philosophy's most profound problems. Its ideas have found a home in the work of Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Anscombe and, more recently, Simon Blackburn and Huw Price" -- Provided by publisher's website.
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