Pragmatism without foundations: reconciling realism and relativism
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1. Verfasser: Margolis, Joseph (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum ©2007
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Introduction -- The nature and strategies of relativism -- Historicism and universalism -- Objectivism and relativism -- Rationality and realism -- Realism and relativism -- The legitimation of realism -- Pragmatism without foundations -- A sense of rapprochement between analytic and continental European philosophy -- Cognitive issues in the realist-idealist dispute -- Skepticism, foundationalism, and pragmatism -- Scientific realism as a transcendental issue -- Epilogue : Pragmatism's new options : classic foundations and contemporary solutions
In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America 's leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern fo
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