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Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in recent times has been the extraordinary renaissance of Pragmatism, marked most notably by the reformulations of the so-called "Neopragmatists" Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. With Pragmatism offering the allure of potentially resolving the impasse between epistemological realists and antirealists, analytic and continental philosophers, as well as thinkers across the disciplines, have been energized and engaged by this movement.In Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists, David L. Hildebrand asks two important questions: first, how faithful are the Neopragmatists' reformulations of Classical Pragmatism (particularly Deweyan Pragmatism)? Second, and more significantly, can their Neopragmatisms work?In assessing Neopragmatism, Hildebrand advances a number of historical and critical points:Current debates between realists and antirealists (as well as objectivists and relativists) are similar to early 20th century debates between realists and idealists that Pragmatism addressed extensively.Despite their debts to Dewey, the Neopragmatists are reenacting realist and idealist stands in their deba

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Author

David L Hildebrand; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612267321

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Western, Humanities