What Pragmatism Was
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What Pragmatism Was

F. Thomas Burke

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What Pragmatism Was

F. Thomas Burke

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A history and exploration of this quintessentially American philosophy. F. Thomas Burke shows how the original "maxim of pragmatism" was understood differently by the two earliest American pragmatists, William James and Charles S. Peirce. Burke reconciles these differences by casting pragmatism as a philosophical stance that endorses distinctive conceptions of belief and meaning. In particular, on Burke's view, a pragmatist conception of meaning as encapsulated in the pragmatic maxim should be understood as both inferentialist and operationalist in character. Burke unravels a complex early history of this philosophical tradition, discusses contemporary conceptions of pragmatism found in current US political discourse, and explores what this quintessentially American philosophy means today.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780253009623
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Pragmatism in Philosophy

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