01499nam a2200277 a 4500 EDZ0000105864 StDuBDS 20150804193926.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121025s2013 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199980154 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS B832 .K565 2013 144.3 23 Kitcher, Philip, 1947- Preludes to pragmatism [electronic resource] : toward a reconstruction of philosophy / Philip Kitcher. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource. 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). Includes index. Pragmatism. Print version 9780199899555 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899555.001.0001 37009 37009