The Practical Turn Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
by Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw-
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Author Biography
Cheryl Misak, Professor, University of Toronto,Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Cheryl Misak works on pragmatism, C.S. Peirce, the history of analytic philosophy and philosophy of medicine. Her 2016 book Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein traced the pragmatism that originated in Cambridge, Massachusetts to its manifestation in Cambridge, England. She is a former provost of the University of Toronto and is currently writing an intellectual biography of Frank Ramsey.
Huw Price writes on pragmatism, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of physics. He is currently Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Before moving to Cambridge in 2011 he was Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Cheryl Misak
2. Ramsey's 1929 Pragmatism, Cheryl Misak
3. The 'Middle' Wittgenstein (and the 'Later' Ramsey) on the Pragmatist Conception of Truth, Anna Boncompagni
4. Smile when you're winning: how to become a Cambridge pragmatist, Hallvard Lillehammer
5. Pragmatism: All or Some or All and Some?, Simon Blackburn
6. The Spirit of Pragmatism in the Quads of Oxford, David Bakhurst
7. Tempered Pragmatism, Ian Rumfitt
8. Pragmatism and Anscombe on the First Person, Jane Heal
9. Wittgenstein's Rain in the 'philosophical desert': Pragmatist Ideas in post-war Oxford, Hanjo Glock
10. Concluding Remarks, Huw Price
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