Pragmatism and Inquiry: Selected Essays
Isaac Levi
Abstract
This volume presents a series of chapters 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. This book'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 modi ... More
Keywords: intellectual inquiry, C. S. Peirce, John Dewey, true belief, doxastic commitments, attitudes, naturalistic terms
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199698134 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2013 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698134.001.0001 |
