Pragmatism Revisited

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-45381-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Pragmatism originated in the United States in the 1870s, and since then it has been influential on numerous areas of philosophical thought. This volume of new essays demonstrates pragmatism's continuing vitality and relevance to epistemology, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, metaphysics, and more. Drawing upon the thought of classical pragmatists including Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, and du Bois, as well as upon that of more recent pragmatists such as Rorty, the essays address a diverse set of topics including artificial intelligence, authoritarianism, feminism, criminal punishment, the value of the environment, the black intellectual tradition, religious fundamentalism, academic freedom, and the moral status of prenatal humans. Concluding with leading contemporary pragmatist Cheryl Misak's reflections on the future of the tradition, the volume demonstrates that pragmatism continues to be a source of valuable ideas and methods for philosophy today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lane, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Contributors; Introduction Robert Lane; 1. Pragmatism and the imagination Chiara Ambrosio; 2. Pragmatism and conceptual change: from engineering to care Anna Boncompagni; 3. Pragmatism and ignorance Richard Kenneth Atkins; 4. Pragmatism, religious fundamentalism, and the shadow of a dead God Cornelis De Waal; 5. Pragmatism, truth, and authoritarianism Andrew Howat; 6. Pragmatism and authoritarian populism Matthew Festenstein; 7. Pragmatism and academic freedom: the university as intellectual experiment station from Humboldt to Peirce and Dewey Shannon Dea; 8. Pragmatism and punishment Raff Donelson; 9. Pragmatism and the environment Henrik Rydenfelt; 10. Pragmatism and reproductive bioethics: a Peircean framework for considering the prenatal human Robert Lane; 11. Peirce and generative AI Catherine Legg; 12. Pragmatism and the black intellectual tradition Jacoby Adeshei Carter; 13. Pragmatism, feminism, gender, and identities Núria Sara Miras Boronat; 14. Pragmatism, ontology, social justice Robert Kraut; 15. The future of pragmatism Cheryl Misak; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lane, Robert
Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Peirce on Realism and Idealism (Cambridge, 2018), and of numerous journal articles on pragmatism and on biomedical ethics.