Pragmatism and Inquiry : Selected Essays
by
Isaac Levi
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ISBN-10
0199698139
ISBN-13
9780199698134
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2012
Print length
272 Pages
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452 grams
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22.10 x 14.80 x 1.90 cms
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This volume presents a series of essays on the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. Isaac Levi draws upon the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey to investigate what justifies change in belief.
This volume presents a series of essays which investigate the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. The starting-point is the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey. Inquiry according to Peirce is a struggle to replace doubt by true belief. Dewey insisted that the transformation was from an indeterminate situation to a determinate or non-problematic one. So Isaac Levi''s subject is changes in doxastic commitments, which may involve changes in attitudes or changes in situations in which attitudes are entangled. The question what justifies modification of doxastic commitments is a normative one, and so may not be understandable in purely naturalistic terms.
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