Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy (Vienna Circle Institute Library, 7)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: On the Viennese Background of Harvard Neopragmatism
	1 Introduction: The Encounter between Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism
	2 Linguistic Frameworks and Conceptual Relativity: Carnap and Putnam
	3 Pragmatist and Neopragmatist (Anti-)Metaphysics
	4 Wittgenstein and (Neo)Pragmatism
	5 Holistic Pragmatism
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Brandom on Pragmatism
	1 Introduction
	2 Pragmatist Views on Conceptuality, Normativity, and Anti-reductionism
	3 Brandom vs. Putnam on Classical Pragmatism
	4 Pragmatism and Ontology
	5 Concluding Critical Remarks
Chapter 4: Pragmatic Realism, Idealism, and Pluralism: A Rescherian Balance?
	1 Introduction
	2 Rescher as a Pragmatist
	3 Rescher (and His Critics) on Realism and Idealism – An Uneasy Balance?
	4 Kantian Matters: Things in Themselves and Conceptual Schemes
	5 Holistic Pragmatism and the Science vs. Religion Debate
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 5: “Languaged” World, “Worlded” Language: On Margolis’s Pragmatic Integration of Realism and Idealism
	1 Introduction
	2 Margolis as a Pragmatic Realist
	3 Conflicting Versions of Pragmatic Realism
	4 Constructivism: Transcendental Idealism by Other Means
	5 Emergence
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Will to Believe, Epistemic Virtue, and Holistic Transcendental Pragmatism
	1 Introduction
	2 Virtues, Holism, and the Will to Believe
	3 Belief and Hope
	4 The Passional and the Transcendental
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 7: Toward a Pragmatically Naturalist Metaphysics of the Fact-Value Entanglement: Emergence or Continuity?
	1 Introduction
	2 The Fact-Value Entanglement and Neopragmatism: Lessons from Putnam
	3 Pragmatists on Emergence
	4 Continuity and Synechism
	5 Ruth Anna Putnam’s “Seamless Web” of “Humanly Created” Facts and Values
	6 Conclusion: Applying the Pragmatic Method
Chapter 8: Finnish Versions of Pragmatist Humanism: Eino Kaila and Georg Henrik von Wright as Quasi-Pragmatists
	1 Introduction
	2 Kaila’s Early Pragmatist Influences
	3 Kaila’s Later Pragmatism: “Practical Testability”
	4 Kaila and Jamesian Pragmatism: Further Similarities and Differences
	5 Von Wright on Action and Causation
	6 Antireductionism and the Disunity of Science
	7 Concluding Remarks: Kaila and von Wright as Public Philosophers
Chapter 9: A New Look at Wittgenstein and Pragmatism
	1 Introduction
	2 “Hinges”: Propositional and Non-propositional
	3 Knowledge and Certainty: Fallibilism and the Truth in Skepticism
	4 Reality: Metaphysics and Anti-metaphysics
	5 Philosophy: Deconstruction and Reconstruction
	6 Philosophy of Religion: Applying the Criticism of the Four Dichotomies
	7 Conclusion
References
Index