Baghramian / Marchetti Pragmatism and the European Traditions

Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology before the Great Divide
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-60353-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

The turn of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of two distinct philosophical schools in Europe: analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual hostility. What is often left out of this history, however, is the relationship between the two European schools and a third significant philosophical event: the birth and development of pragmatism, the indigenous philosophical movement of the United States. Through a careful analysis of seminal figures and central texts, this book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between these three revolutionary philosophical traditions. The essays in this volume aim to show the central role that pragmatism played in the development of philosophical thought at the turn of the twentieth century, widen our understanding of a seminal point in the history of philosophy, and shed light on the ways in which these three schools of thought continue to shape the theoretical agenda of contemporary philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baghramian, Maria

Marchetti, Sarin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Mingled Story of Three Revolutions Maria Baghramian and Sarin Marchetti

Part I: Early Encounters

1. Husserl and Wittgenstein: Two Very Different but Potentially Complementary Readings of William James Richard Cobb-Stevens

2. How to Marry Phenomenology and Pragmatism: Scheler’s Proposal Kevin Mulligan

3. Pragmatic and Analytic Evasions of Idealism: James and Wittgenstein on Conduct and Practice Colin Koopman

4. Other Minds and God: Russell and Stout on James and Schiller Tim Button

5. Russell, Pragmatism, and the Priority of Use Over Meaning James Levine

6. Peirce and Ramsey on Truths and Norms Cheryl Misak

7. Wittgenstein and Pragmatism: A Neglected Remark in Manuscript 107 (1930) Anna Boncompagni

Part II: Later Encounters

8. The Pragmatic Origins of Ethical Expressivism: Stevenson, Dewey, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science John Capps

9. The Analytic Pragmatist Conception of the A Priori: C. I. Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars James O’Shea

10. In Defense of Wishful Thinking: James, Quine, Emotions, and the Web of Belief Alexander Klein

11. Logical Empiricism Between Pragmatism and Neopragmatism Sami Pihlström

12. Phenomenology and Pragmatism: Two Interactions. From Horizontal Intentionality to Practical Coping Dermot Moran

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Baghramian is Professor of American Philosophy at University College Dublin and current Head of School of Philosophy. She was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and was Fulbright Scholar in Harvard in 2014. Her research and publications, supported by the Irish Research Council, focus on Contemporary American Philosophy and the topics of relativism and disagreement.

Sarin Marchetti is Assistant Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, where he teaches Moral Theories. He has written on ethics, metaphilosophy, Pragmatism, and the History of Analytic Philosophy. He is the author of Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James (2015) and co-editor of Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity (with G. Marchetti, 2016).