The Two Pragmatisms : From Peirce to Rorty (Paperback)

Introduction 1 Peirce: his background and his account of inquiry Inquiry and the critique of Cartesianism 2 Peirce: the theory of signs Law and habit 3 Peirce: Pragmatism and William James 4 Peirce: metaphysics and cosmology Cosmology 5 James: background and The Principles of Psychology The Principles of Psychology Radical Empiricism 6 James: ‘The Will to Believe’ Scepticism 7 James: The Varieties of Religious Experience Conversion Saintliness Philosophy of religion 8 Dewey: background and philosophical psychology Philosophical psychology The philosophy of education 9 Dewey: philosophy and Empiricism Science and Empiricism 10 Dewey: Radical Empiricism The later work 11 Rorty: the mirror of nature Epistemology Contemporary philosophy 12 Rorty: hermeneutics and irony Contingency and value 13 Rorty: the history of philosophy