Abstract

One of Richard Rorty's legacies is to have put a Jamesian version of pragmatism on the contemporary philosophical map. Part of his argument has been that pragmatism and analytic philosophy are set against each other, with pragmatism almost having been killed off by the reigning analytic philosophy. The argument of this paper is that there is a better and more interesting reading of both the history of pragmatism and the history of analytic philosophy.

Highlights

  • A complaint has run through pragmatism for the last few decades

  • Pragmatism was operating on the margins, driven from philosophy departments by the reigning analytic philosophy

  • The eclipse view has it that pragmatism and logical empiricism did battle, with pragmatism quickly finding itself on the bullied end

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Summary

Introduction

That complaint is that analytic philosophy has nearly killed off pragmatism On this view, which Robert Talisse 1 has called the ‘eclipse view’, when Richard Rorty brought his considerable talents to the pragmatist scene in the. Along about 1945, American philosophers were, for better or worse, bored with Dewey, and with pragmatism. Dewey was the great American intellectual figure of their century, and the like They wanted something new, something they could get their philosophical teeth into. In The American Pragmatists [5], I argue that Rorty’s view is a misreading of both the history of pragmatism and the history of analytic philosophy. I will offer a highly condensed version of that argument here It is by necessity the barest sketch and the interested reader should turn to The American Pragmatists for the requisite detail and nuance

Two Versions of Pragmatism
Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism
The Next Generation of Analytic Pragmatists
Rorty’s Revolutionary Pragmatism
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