Preludes to pragmatism [electronic resource] : toward a reconstruction of philosophy / Philip Kitcher. Kitcher, Philip, 1947- Pragmatism. B832 .K565 2013 144.3 23 Includes index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of little interest to the wider world. What is the future of philosophy, and what would it look like? These essays try to install the pragmatic spirit into contemporary philosophy, renewing James and Dewey for our own times. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 2013. 2013 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899555.001.0001 eng