Pragmatism in Transition : Contemporary Perspectives on C.I. Lewis

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This collection is an attempt by a diverse range of authors to reignite interest in C.I. Lewis’s work within the pragmatist and analytic traditions. Although pragmatism has enjoyed a renewed popularity in the past thirty years, some influential pragmatists have been overlooked. C. I. Lewis is arguably the most important of overlooked pragmatists and was highly influential within his own time period. The volume assembles a wide range of perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of Lewis’s contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, philosophy of science, and ethics. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction (Peter Olen, Carl Sachs)....Pages 1-10 C.I. Lewis? A Significant Figure in American Pragmatism: Tracing Lines of Influence and Affinities of Themes and Ideas (Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley)....Pages 11-33 C.I. Lewis: From Conceptual Pragmatism to Contemporary Metaethics (Diana B. Heney)....Pages 35-61 Diverging Paths? Conceptual Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism (Peter Olen)....Pages 63-77 The Given, the Pragmatic A Priori, and Scientific Change (Juan V. Mayoral)....Pages 79-101 Pragmatism, Apriority, and Modality: C.I. Lewis Against Russell’s Material Implication (Sanford Shieh)....Pages 103-145 The Pragmatic Theory of the A Priori (David J. Stump)....Pages 147-167 Empiricism, Pragmatic Realism, and the A Priori in Mind and the World Order (Kenneth R. Westphal)....Pages 169-198 Sellars and Lewis on the Given and Empirical Knowledge (Tomasz Zarębski)....Pages 199-217 Back Matter ....Pages 219-222