C.I. Lewis

The A Priori and the Given
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-70087-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge forms the core of Lewis’s masterpiece Mind and the World Order. While Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism is directed against any conception of the a priori as constraining the mind and experience, it also emphasizes the inalterability and the unavoidability of the given that remains the same through any interpretation of it by the mind. The chapters in this book probe Lewis’s new account of the relation between the a priori and the given in dialogue with other notable figures in twentieth-century philosophy, including Goodman, Putnam, Quine, Russell, Sellars, and Sheffer. C.I. Lewis: The A Priori and the Given represents a focused treatment of a longneglected figure in twentieth-century American philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kammer, Quentin

Narboux, Jean-Philippe

Wagner, Henri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

HENRI WAGNER

1 Sheffer, Lewis, and the “Logocentric Predicament” 27

JULIET FLOYD

2 Strict Implication and the Pragmatic A Priori 104

SANFORD SHIEH

3 Aims and Claims of C. I. Lewis’s Conceptual Pragmatism 132

HENRI WAGNER

4 C. I. Lewis on the Intersubjective and the Constitution of Objectivity 167

ARATA HAMAWAKI

5 Relocating the Myth of the Given in Lewis and Sellars 195

JAMES O’SHEA

6 Spontaneity, Sensation, and the Myth of the Given 216

THOMAS LAND

7 Goodman and the Given: What Goodman Inherits From C. I. Lewis 240

QUENTIN KAMMER

8 C. I. Lewis: The Red and the Good 274

THOMAS BALDWIN

Über Autor(innen)

Quentin Kammer is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, and member of the research center “Sciences, Philosophie, Humanites.” Defended in 2018, his PhD dissertation focuses on Nelson Goodman’s conception of the rightness of projection. He, along with Henri Wagner, translated in French, Lewis’s “A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori ” and Goodman’s “Snowflakes and Wastebaskets” devoted to Lewis’s pragmatism.

Jean-Philippe Narboux is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. His recent articles include “Is Self-Consciousness Consciousness of One‘s Self?,” in Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (Routledge, 2018), “Anscombe’s Account of Voluntary Action in Intention ” ( Enrahonar, 2020), and “Conceptual Truth, Necessity, and Negation” ( The Monist, 2020).

Henri Wagner is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. He mainly works on philosophy of logic and language. He is the editor of Hilary Putnam (Klesis, no. 47, 2020) and has recently published “The Significance of the Division of Linguistic Labor” ( The Monist, volume 103, Issue 4, October 2020, 381–390).