In this book a philosopher who has been at the centre of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues turns to Pragmatism - and confronts the teaching of James, Peirce, Dewey and Wittgenstein, not solely out of an interest in theoretical questions, but above all to respond to the question whether it is possible to find an alternative to corrosive moral scepticism, of the one hand, and to moral authoritarianism on the other. It also discusses th leading contemporary philosophers, including Rorty, Quine, McDowell and Goodman.
- ISBN10 0631193421
- ISBN13 9780631193425
- Publish Date 23 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 October 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English