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Pragmatism and Inquiry
Isaac Levi
其他書名
Selected Essays
出版OUP Oxford, 2012-08-30
主題Philosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / EpistemologyPhilosophy / History & Surveys / ModernPhilosophy / Movements / PragmatismScience / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN01996981399780199698134
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dlOrG8MjloQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This volume presents a series of essays which investigate the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. The starting-point is the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey. Inquiry according to Peirce is a struggle to replace doubt by true belief. Dewey insisted that the transformation was from an indeterminate situation to a determinate or non-problematic one. So Isaac Levi's subject is changes in doxastic commitments, which may involve changes in attitudes or changes in situations in which attitudes are entangled. The question what justifies modification of doxastic commitments is a normative one, and so may not be understandable in purely naturalistic terms.