The Pragmatic Maxim

Abstract

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where she is also Vice-President and Provost. Much of her work has been on early American philosophy, especially that of the founder of pragmatism, C.S. Peirce. In 2004 Oxford University Press re-issued an expanded version of her 1991 Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth. She also works in the History of Analytic Philosophy (Verifi cationism: Its History and Prospects, Routledge, 1995); political philosophy (Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation, Routledge, 2000); and moral philosophy and philosophy of medicine (“Experience, Narrative, and Ethical Deliberation,” Ethics (2008) and “Narrative Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine,” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (2010). She is currently writing a book on the whole of American Pragmatism for Oxford University Press.