NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PRAGMATISM AND ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY pdf

[...]... this constitutes a precise reference point for recognizing the interconnection between rational and empirical knowledge factors, led to a philosophical alternative to traditional empiricism and ration-alism More importantly, the concept of action served to critique traditional foundationalism and reconstruct the notion of “foundation” through an approach to the concepts of knowledge, truth, and objectivity... classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy is, contra Bernstein, far from an illusion generated by historical myopia and parochial attachments Put positively, the vitality of contemporary analytic philosophy cannot be gainsaid, while the continuity between American pragmatism and analytic philosophy can only be affirmed, at least in the manner insisted upon by Bernstein, by... rational dimension of action and they govern strategies for the fulfilment of material interests More generally, this recognition is linked to the contemporary awareness of the “imperfect” nature of rationality and entails the need – also expressed by the “noncausalist” analytical theories of action – to conceive of the justification of rational action in terms of a double explanatory code: one that concerns... sufficiently unified and distinctive character to render highly questionable the continuity claimed by Bernstein between the thought of Peirce, James, Dewey, Mead, and Lewis, on the one hand, and Wittgenstein, Quine, Sellars, Davidson, and Rorty, on the other The extended family of philosophical traditions making up analytic philosophy are, contra Margolis, far from spent In turn, the discontinuity between... limitations, potentialities, and responsibilities of each individual, and also concerns the beliefs, projects, and imperatives deriving from his or her existence as a social subject.7 The tendency to translate the concept of “foundation” into “justification” also forms an integral part of the thought of Hilary Putnam, which represents a milestone in recent interactions between pragmatism and analytical philosophy. .. should be credited with a major contribution in refocusing attention on classic pragmatists, Putnam believes xvi INTRODUCTION that Pierce, Dewey, and James developed a decontextualized philosophical terrain on the basis of which it is possible to contain the attacks of contemporary thought on the bastions of traditional foundationalism Specifically, they provided the conceptual tools with that give the... overcome the conflict between empiricism and logicism In other words, we can agree with Rorty in seeing in Quine, Sellars, and Davidson the allies of classic pragmatists, but for different reasons Quine’s famous challenge to the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions touched on a key point in pragmatist philosophy: the assertion of interference between the logical dimension and the empirical... epistemological criterion of intersubjectivity on which Pierce had based his logical “socialism,” did not imply a conventionalist or antirepresentationalist conception of truth On the contrary, he stated that scientific propositions are “interpretative” representations of reality, and that they are true exactly insofar as they manage to transfer the non-linguistic into linguistic form Finally, Davidson’s coherentism... self, are more prominent than those of melioration and reparation, the reconstruction of institutions and remaking of our practices The purpose of this paper is obliquely to consider the self in relationship to the world by directly considering questions about practice (thus, ones about our engagement in, indebtedness to, and estrangement from the practices in and through which human lives acquire their... never do, if only because their patterns of migration and mutation extend beyond the limits of his physical existence and even the control of his unquestionable genius We must take him at his word: he was explicit about his relationship to pragmatism Yet we must trace the trajectory of his words beyond what he consciously meant, for they drive in the direction of affirming the primacy and ultimacy . w0 h0" alt="" NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PRAGMATISM AND ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY a volume in Studies in Pragmatism and Values SPV VIBS Volume 228 Robert Ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas Donskis Executive. Different Pragmatist Reactions to Analytic Philosophy Michele Marsonet 101 NINE Pragmatism and Intention-in-Action John McDowell 119 TEN Pragmatism as Anti-Representationalism? Eva Picardi. pragmatic and analytic camps understand and constructively criticize both traditions, and it will help pave the way for future cooperation among thinkers in two of the most productive schools of contemporary