Pragmatism without foundations: reconciling realism and relativism
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Main Author: Margolis, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum ©2007
Edition:2nd ed
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 286 pages)
ISBN:9781441167286
1441167285
9780826491374
0826491375
9780826492722
082649272X

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