The Metaphysics of Pragmatism - Softcover

Hook PH D, Dr Sidney; Dewey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494024810 ISBN 13: 9781494024819

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

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Since its founding in the nineteenth century by Charles Sanders Peirce, the pragmatic school had been criticized as antimetaphysical and its focus on scientific method and critical inquiry viewed as undermining one of the very foundations of traditional philosophy. In the Metaphysics of Pragmatism, written as his doctoral dissertation and first published in 1927, Hook began his distinguished philosophical career by juxtaposing the terms "metaphysics" and "pragmatism" to show that the pragmatic method cannot begin to help us solve human problems without holding to a particular view of how the world is arranged both physically and conceptually. But this does not imply that pragmatism holds to a traditional, rigid metaphysic. Rather, as Hook's ground-breaking study shows, it has an interactive dimension in which human problems are viewed as contingent on the ways we structure our questions and design methods for finding solutions, both of which can change - and the implied metaphysic evolve - as inquiry uncovers new information about ourselves and the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1494024810
• ISBN 13: 9781494024819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154