Book contents
- Pragmatism Revisited
- Philosophical Movements Revisited
- Pragmatism Revisited
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pragmatism and the Imagination
- Chapter 2 Pragmatism and Conceptual Change
- Chapter 3 Pragmatism and Ignorance
- Chapter 4 Pragmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Shadow of a Dead God
- Chapter 5 Pragmatism, Truth, and Authoritarianism
- Chapter 6 Pragmatism and Authoritarian Populism
- Chapter 7 Pragmatism and Academic Freedom
- Chapter 8 Pragmatism and Punishment
- Chapter 9 Pragmatism and the Environment
- Chapter 10 Pragmatism and Reproductive Bioethics
- Chapter 11 Peirce and Generative AI
- Chapter 12 Pragmatism and the Black Intellectual Tradition
- Chapter 13 Pragmatism, Feminism, Gender, and Identities
- Chapter 14 Pragmatism, Ontology, Social Justice
- Chapter 15 The Future of Pragmatism
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
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Book contents
- Pragmatism Revisited
- Philosophical Movements Revisited
- Pragmatism Revisited
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pragmatism and the Imagination
- Chapter 2 Pragmatism and Conceptual Change
- Chapter 3 Pragmatism and Ignorance
- Chapter 4 Pragmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Shadow of a Dead God
- Chapter 5 Pragmatism, Truth, and Authoritarianism
- Chapter 6 Pragmatism and Authoritarian Populism
- Chapter 7 Pragmatism and Academic Freedom
- Chapter 8 Pragmatism and Punishment
- Chapter 9 Pragmatism and the Environment
- Chapter 10 Pragmatism and Reproductive Bioethics
- Chapter 11 Peirce and Generative AI
- Chapter 12 Pragmatism and the Black Intellectual Tradition
- Chapter 13 Pragmatism, Feminism, Gender, and Identities
- Chapter 14 Pragmatism, Ontology, Social Justice
- Chapter 15 The Future of Pragmatism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this introduction to Pragmatism Revisited, Robert Lane summarizes the book’s fifteen chapters. Those chapters apply classical and newer pragmatist ideas to a wide range of issues, including the imagination, conceptual change, ignorance, religious fundamentalism, truth in political discourse, authoritarian populism, academic freedom, criminal punishment and mass incarceration, environmental philosophy, bioethics, artificial intelligence, the Black intellectual tradition, feminism, gender, and social construction; the final chapter examines the future of pragmatism itself.
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