Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

by Philip Kitcher

Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of little interest to the wider world. What is the future of philosophy, and what would it look like?

While Classical Pragmatism -- the American philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019989955X
• ISBN13: 9780199899555
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"