The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Mike Sandbothe and William Egginton 1. The Insistence on Futurity: Pragmatism’s Temporal Structure 11 Ludwig Nagl 2. Philosophy as a Reconstructive Activity: William James on Moral Philosophy 31 Hilary Putnam 3. Pragmatic Aspects of Hegel’s Thought 47 Antje Gimmler 4. The Pragmatic Twist of the Linguistic Turn 67 Mike Sandbothe 5. The Debate about Truth: Pragmatism without Regulative Ideas 93 Albrecht Wellmer 6. The Viewpoint of No One in Particular 115 Arthur Fine 7. A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy 131 Richard Rorty 8. What Knowledge? What Hope? What New Pragmatism? 145 Barry Allen 9. Richard Rorty: Philosophy beyond Argument and Truth? 163 Wolfgang Welsch 10. Keeping Pragmatism Pure: Rorty with Lacan 187 William Egginton v vi Contents 11. Cartesian Realism and the Revival of Pragmatism 223 Joseph Margolis Selected Bibliography 249 List of Contributors 257 Index 259 ...