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Have you ever called yourself a "pragmatist"? Have you ever
wondered what that means? Aaron Zimmerman traces the origins of
pragmatism to a theory of belief defended by the nineteenth-century
Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain, and defends a novel take on
the pragmatic theory in light of contemporary cognitive
neuroscience, social psychology, and evolutionary biology.
Pragmatists define their beliefs in terms of information poised to
guide our more attentive, controlled actions. Zimmerman describes
the consequences of this definition for the reader's thinking on
the relation between psychology and philosophy, the mind and brain,
the nature of delusion, faith, pretence, racism, and more. He
employs research on animal cognition to argue against the
propositional attitude analysis of belief now popular among
Anglo-American philosophers, offers pragmatic diagnoses of Capgras
syndrome and various forms of racial cognition, and defends William
James' famous doctrine of the "will to believe". Zimmerman believes
we often have room to believe what we want. Indeed, the adoption of
a theory of belief is an instance of this very phenomenon.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
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