Overview
TODO
History
American pragmatism
“Cambridge” pragmatism
- Frank Ramsey
- The later Wittgenstein
Neo-pragmatism
Graphical representation of influences
graph TD
H[G. W. F. Hegel] -.-> B[F. H. Bradley]
H -.-> P[C. S. Pierce]
H -.-> R[Josiah Royce]
H -.-> D[John Dewey]
B -.-> R
R -.-> D
R --> L{C. I. Lewis}
P -.-> J[William James]
P -.-> L
J --> L
L --> G[Nelson Goodman]
L --> Q[W. V. O. Quine]
L --> S{Wilfrid Sellars}
C{Rudolph Carnap} --> G
C --> Q
C -.-> S
Q --> DD[Donald Davidson]
Dotted lines are influence, solid lines are advisors, diamonds are neo-kantians.
Semantics
What does it mean that “All ’s are necessarily ’s”? A pragmatist answer is that it is a license to infer statements like ” is a ” from statements like ” is an “.
Truth
- Pierce: Truth as the limit of inquiry
- James: Truth as what is good for belief1