TY - BOOK AU - Kitcher,Philip TI - Preludes to pragmatism: toward a reconstruction of philosophy SN - 9780199980154 (ebook) : AV - B832 .K565 2013 U1 - 144.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Pragmatism N1 - Includes index N2 - Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired in narrowly focused, technical disputes of little interest to the wider world. What is the future of philosophy, and what would it look like? These essays try to install the pragmatic spirit into contemporary philosophy, renewing James and Dewey for our own times UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899555.001.0001 ER -