C. I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist (SUNY Series in Philosophy (Hardcover))
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791465411 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of many books, including Philosophical Foundations of Historical Knowledge, also published by SUNY Press; The Development of Peirce s Philosophy; and (with Elizabeth Flower) A History of Philosophy in America." . Murray G. Murphey is Professor Emeritus of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania
As professor of philosophy at Harvard and the founder of modal symbolic logic, Lewis taught and deeply influenced a generation of philosophers. I. Murphey explores the life and intellectual work of C. Detailed attention is given to the important contributions of Lewis's work in logic, epistemology, value theory, meaning, and ethics. Murphey traces the development of Lewis's thought from his early Idealism through his Conceptual Pragmatism and his defense of that position against the onslaught of Logical Positivism in the 1930s and 1940s. From the Back Cover Noted scholar-historian Murray G. Lewis (1883–1964), the central figure in American philosophy between the "golden age" of James and Royce and the later scene of Quine and Goodman, Sellars and Rorty. He also examines how Lewis developed in a more precise and systematic way the Pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey, while retaining their combination of empiricism and humanism
As professor of philosophy at Harvard and the founder of modal symbolic logic, Lewis taught and deeply influenced a generation of philosophers. Murphey explores the life and intellectual work of C. Noted scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey traces the development of Lewis s thought from his early Idealism through his Conceptual Pragmatism and his defense of that position against the onslaught of Logical Positivism in the 1930s and 1940s. I. Detailed attention is given to the important contributions of Lewis s work in logic, epistemology, value theory, meaning, and ethics.". He also examines how Lewis developed in a more precise and systematic way the Pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey, while retaining their combination of empiricism and humanism and marshalling the weapons of analytic philosophy in t