Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. She identifies two dominant lines of thought in the tradition: the first begins with Charles S. Peirce and Ch…
"In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core pre…
"In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core pre…
"In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant's body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core pre…
The beautiful risk of education
by Biesta, Gert
fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)
"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …
The beautiful risk of education
by Biesta, Gert
fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)
"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …
The beautiful risk of education
by Biesta, Gert
fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)
"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …
This book discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholas…
This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, the author weaving together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative langua…