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The Practical Turn - Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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The Practical Turn - Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, 210
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American pragmatism, born in the 1870s in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
has as its central insight the idea that our philosophical concepts
of truth, knowledge, probability, and so on must start with, and
remain linked to, human experience and inquiry. This book traces
and assesses the strong influence of American pragmatism on British
philosophy, with particular emphasis on Cambridge during the
inter-war period, on post-war Oxford, and on recent developments.
Most philosophers would say that American pragmatism received only
a hostile reception in England when the ideas first travelled
across the Atlantic. But this volume argues that the movement of
pragmatist ideas in Britain was a strong and important current,
cutting new channels to fruitful ways of thinking about
philosophy's most profound problems. Its ideas have found a home in
the work of Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Anscombe and, more recently,
Simon Blackburn and Huw Price.
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