{"product_id":"introducing-pragmatism","title":"Introducing Pragmatism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism. It follows pragmatism’s focus on the process of inquiry rather than on abstract justifications meant to appease the skeptic. According to pragmatists, getting to know the world is a creative human enterprise, wherein we fashion our concepts in terms of how they affect us practically, including in future inquiry. This book fully illuminates that enterprise and the resulting radical rethinking of basic philosophical conceptions like truth, reality, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Cornelis de Waal helps the reader recognize, understand, and assess classical and current pragmatist contributions—from Charles S. Peirce to Cornel West—evaluate existing views from a pragmatist angle, formulate pragmatist critiques, and develop a pragmatist viewpoint on a specific issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book discusses:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassical pragmatists, including Peirce, James, Dewey, and Addams;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContemporary figures, including Rorty, Putnam, Haack, and West;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnections with other twentieth-century approaches, including phenomenology, critical theory, and logical positivism;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeirce’s pragmatic maxim and its relation to James’s Will to Believe;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApplications to philosophy of law, feminism, and issues of race and racism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310498095486,"sku":"NW9781138367180","price":43.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781138367180.jpg?v=1778582833","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/introducing-pragmatism","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}