Pragmatism

Course content

An investigation of the original defenders and more recent variations of pragmatism. Views of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead and Ferdinand C. S. Schiller, more recent analytical perspectives of C. I. Lewis, W. V. O. Quine, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Roty, ideas of boradly pragmatist or pragmatically inclined philosophers such as Richard J. Bernstein, Wilfrid Sellars, Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas.