A philosophy of culture : the scope of holistic pragmatism
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A philosophy of culture : the scope of holistic pragmatism
Princeton University Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of holistic pragmatism can accommodate its breadth. Going beyond Quine's dictum that philosophy of science is philosophy enough, White suggests that it should contain the word "culture" in place of "science." He defends the holistic view that scientific belief is tested by experience but that such testing is rightly applied to systems or conjunctions of beliefs, not isolated beliefs. He adds, however, that we test ethical systems by appealing to feelings of moral obligation as well as to sensory experiences. In the course of his lucidly written analysis, White treats central issues in the philosophy of science, of religion, of art, of history, of law, of politics, and of morality. While doing so he examines the views of Quine, Tarski, Goodman, and Rawls, and shows how they are related to the approaches of Peirce, James, Duhem, Russell, Dewey, Carnap, and the later Wittgenstein.
He also discusses the ideas of the legal philosophers Holmes and Hart from a holistic standpoint. White demonstrates how his version of pragmatism bridges the traditional gulf between analytic and synthetic truth as well as that between moral and scientific belief. Indeed, the high point of the book is a brilliant presentation of his view of ethics, based on the idea that our scientific theories face the tribunal of observation whereas our ethical views face the joint tribunal of observation and moral feeling. Scholars and students of the history of ideas and of philosophy will welcome "A Philosophy of Culture" as the highly finished product of more than sixty years of philosophical reflection by an important thinker.
目次
Prologue ix Chapter I: 1 Holistic Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Culture 1 Chapter II: William James:Psychologist and Philosopher of Religion Chapter III: John Dewey's Philosophy of Ar 24 Chapter IV: The Dualisms of Earlier Pragmatism 44 Chapter V: Early Epistemological Holism and the Dualisms of Logical Empiricism 54 Chapter VI: Holistic Pragmatism and Natural Science: Tarski and Quine 66 Chapter VII: Holistic Pragmatism and the Philosophy of History 77 Chapter VIII: Philosophy of Ar as Philosophy of Language: Nelson Goodman 108 Chapter IX: Rule,Ruling,and Prediction in the Law: Har v. Holmes 126 Chapter X: Holistic Pragmatism,Ethics,and Rawls's Theory of Justice 153 Chapter XI: Philosophy as Philosophy of Culture 178 Index 189
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