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This book is available either individually, or as part of the
specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy
of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism'
and one of the most important and original American philosophers.
Peirce made significant contributions to the development of formal
logic and to the study of the normative standards we should follow
in carrying out inquiries and enhancing our knowledge in science
and mathematics. In The Pragmatic Maxim, Hookway explores Peirce's
writings on truth, science, and the nature of meaning, which have
become steadily more influential over recent decades. He
demonstrates how Peirce's ideas can contribute to and inform
philosophical understanding in debates that continue today. The
first seven chapters explore the framework of Peirce's thought,
especially his fallibilism and his rejection of scepticism, and his
contributions to the pragmatist understanding of truth and reality.
Like Frege and Husserl, among others, Peirce rejected psychologism
and used phenomenological foundations to defend the system of
categories. The final three chapters are concerned with 'the
pragmatic maxim', a rule for clarifying the contents of concepts
and ideas. Hookway explores the different strategies Peirce
employed to demonstrate the correctness of the maxim, and thus of
pragmatism. As well as studying and evaluating Peirce's views, The
Pragmatic Maxim discusses the relations between the views of Peirce
and other pragmatist philosophers such as William James, C. I.
Lewis, and Richard Rorty.
Scepticism is a subject which has preoccupied philosophers for two
thousand years. This book presents an historical perspective on
scepticism by considering contrasting views, such as those of
Sextus Empiricus, Descartes and Hume, on why scepticism is
important.
With its historical perspective and analysis of contemporary
discussions, Scepticism provides a broad focus on the subject,
differing from other discussions of the topic in the importance it
attaches to scepticism both in Greek thought and in pre-twentieth
century views generally.
Scepticism is a subject which has preoccupied philosophers for two
thousand years. This book presents an historical perspective on
scepticism by considering contrasting views, such as those of
Sextus Empiricus, Descartes and Hume, on why scepticism is
important.
With its historical perspective and analysis of contemporary
discussions, Scepticism provides a broad focus on the subject,
differing from other discussions of the topic in the importance it
attaches to scepticism both in Greek thought and in pre-twentieth
century views generally.
This is a volume of original essays written by philosophers and
scientists and dealing with philosophical questions arising from
work in evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. In recent
years both of these areas have been the focus for attempts to
provide a scientific, model of a wide range of human capacities -
most prominently perhaps in sociobiology and cognitive psychology.
The book therefore examines a number of issues related to the
search for a 'naturalistic' or scientific account of human
experience and behaviour. Some of the essays deal with the
application of such models to particular behaviour, stressing the
problems raised by consciousness, and the information to be derived
from the differing capacities of animals and people; others
consider more general questions about the logic of the explanations
provided by these kinds of approach. The volume continues the
informal series stemming from meetings sponsored by the Thyssen
Foundation.
Whether the interpretations made by social scientists of the
thoughts, utterances and actions of other people, including those
from an alien culture or a different period in history, are
objectively correct, whether the forms of explanation they employ
conform to those of the natural sciences, and whether values have a
role in arriving at the theory that delivers the interpretations,
are the main questions addressed by the contributors to this
volume. Of particular importance in the discussion of the issues
are developments in the philosophy of language and mind. The eight
essays converge on the themes of intentionality, realism and theory
choice, reflecting the amount of attention being given to these
matters when this book was first published in 1980. Together they
make a distinguished contribution to discussion in the area and
serve to underline the importance of intellectual collaboration on
such discussion between philosophy and the social sciences.
Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes centre on the question of how we are able to investigate the world rationally; Peirce's ideas about this continue to play an important role in philosophy, as Hookway shows. Topics discussed include Peirce's theory of truth, his metaphysical views, his claim that emotions and sentiments guide us in reasoning well, and his religious views.
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