Pragmatism and Inquiry

Selected Essays

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Isaac Levi, Isaac (Columbia University) Levi

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This volume presents a series of essays which investigate the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. The starting-point is the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey. Inquiry according to Peirce is a struggle to replace doubt by true belief. Dewey insisted that the transformation was from an indeterminate situation to a determinate or non-problematic one. So Isaac Levi's subject is changes in doxastic commitments, which may involve changes in attitudes or changes in situations in which attitudes are entangled. The question what justifies modification of doxastic commitments is a normative one, and so may not be understandable in purely naturalistic terms.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-08-30
Mått154 x 221 x 21 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199698134

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Introduction ; 1. Corrigibilism without Solidarity ; 2. Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method ; 3. Pragmatism and Change of View ; 4. Beware of Syllogism: Statistical Reasoning and Conjecturing According to Peirce ; 5. Dewey's Logic of Inquiry ; 6. Wayward Naturalism: Saving Dewey from Himself ; 7. Seeking Truth ; 8. The Logic of Consistency and the Logic of Truth ; 9. Belief, Doubt, and Evidentialism ; 10. Induction, Abduction, and Oracles ; 11. Knowledge as True Full Belief ; References ; Index