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Pragmatism : a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. by James, William

Table of Contents: “…Title; Contents; Preface; Lecture I -- The Present Dilemma in Philosophy; Lecture II -- What Pragmatism Means; Lecture III -- Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered; Lecture IV -- The One and the Many; Lecture V -- Pragmatism and Common Sense; Lecture VI -- Pragmatism's Conception of Truth; Lecture VII -- Pragmatism and Humanism; Lecture VIII -- Pragmatism and Religion; Endnotes.…”
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Pragmatics / by Huang, Yan, 1955-

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Pragmatics : an annotated bibliography / by Verschueren, Jef

Subjects: “…Pragmatics Bibliography.…”
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Pragmatics by Huang, Yan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1.1. What is pragmatics? -- 1.1.1. A definition -- 1.1.2. A brief history of pragmatics -- 1.1.3. …”
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Pragmatism. by Talisse, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Origins of Pragmatism; 2 Pragmatism and Epistemology; 3 Pragmatism and Truth; 4 Pragmatism and Metaphysics; 5 Pragmatism and Ethics; 6 Pragmatism and Politics; 7 Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Habermas and Pragmatism. by Aboulafia, Mitchell

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Contemporary Pragmatism. by Aboulafia, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…; Dewey and His Vision of Democracy; Dewey and the New Atheism; Richard Rorty's Disenchanted Liberalism; American Pragmatism and Feminism: Fresh Opportunities for Sociological Inquiry; Non-Passivity of Perceptual Experience; Epistemological Behaviorism, Nonconceptual Content, and the Given; Book Reviews.…”
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The New Pragmatism. by Malachowski, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the New Pragmatism; 2. Leaving classic pragmatism behind; 3. …”
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A companion to pragmatism /

Table of Contents: “…Schiller and European pragmatism / John R. Shook -- John Dewey / Philip W. …”
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Studies in pragmatism / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Preface; PRAGMATISM AND PRACTICALRATIONALITY; KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTHIN PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE; PRAGMATISM IN THE TWENTIETHCENTURY; PRAGMATISM AT THE CROSSROADS; IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCEAND ONTOLOGY:A PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM; PRAGMATIC REALISM:A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM; PRAGMATIC IDEALISM ANDMETAPHYSICAL REALISM; COUNTERFACTUALS IN PRAGMATICPERSPECTIVE; Name Index.…”
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Pragmatism - a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James : With a Critical Introduction by Eric C. Sheffield. by James, William

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Preface; Expanded Contents; Lecture I: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy; Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means; Lecture III: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered; Lecture IV: The One and the Many; Lecture V: Pragmatism and Common Sense; Lecture VI: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth; Lecture VII: Pragmatism and Humanism; Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and Religion…”
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Le Pragmatisme américain et anglais : Étude historique et critique suivie d'une bibliographie méthodique. by Leroux, Emmanuel

Table of Contents: “…Dewey et l'École de Chicago; I; II; III; IV; DEUXIÈME PARTIE -- Le Développement du Pragmatisme.…”
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The pragmatic vision : themes in philosophical pragmatism / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1: The Pragmatic Vision -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Utility -- Chapter 3: Knowledge in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 4: Leaping in the Dark and Other Aspects of Rational Inquiry -- Chapter 5: Supposition as a Pragmatic Device -- Chapter 6: Induction as a Pragmatic Resource -- Chapter 7: Fact and Value in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 8: Free Will in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 9: On Explaining and Evaluating Human Actions -- Chapter 10: Condemnation versus Blame in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 11: On the Pragmatic Role of Positive Interpersonal Attitudes -- Chapter 12: The Pragmatics of Betterment -- Chapter 13: Can Pragmatism Validate Itself? …”
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The Continuum companion to pragmatism /

Table of Contents: “…Research methods and problems -- A history of pragmatism / James Campbell -- Epistemology, logic, and inquiry / John Capps -- Metaphysics / Sami Pihlström -- Science and technology / Larry Hickman -- Aesthetics / Armen T. …”
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The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry /

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New Pragmatists. by Misak, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…Relativism, Pragmatism, and the Practice of Science; 4. Pragmatism and Deflationism; 5. …”
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The varieties of pragmatism : truth, realism, and knowledge from James to Rorty / by McDermid, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatism and epistemology : deconstruction or reconstruction? …”
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Bloomsbury companion to pragmatism / Companion to pragmatism

Table of Contents: “…A History of Pragmatism / James Campbell -- Part II: Current Research and Issues. 4. …”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 3. by Shook, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Review of Paul Fairfield, Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical PragmatismReview of William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe, eds., The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought.…”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 5. by Aboulafia, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Peirce's Critical Common-sensism; The Economic Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce; The Pragmatist Legacy in American Institutionalism; The Limits of Liberalism: Pragmatism, Democracy and Capitalism; Cornel West, John Dewey, and the Tragicomic Undercurrents of Deweyan Creative Democracy; Religion, Public Reason, and Humanism: Paul Kurtz on Fallibilism and Ethics; John Dewey's Ethical Naturalism; Book Notes.…”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 3. by Shook, John R.

Table of Contents: “…; Pragmatist Value Inquiry; Teaching Pragmatism Pragmatically: A Promising Approach to the Cultivation of Character; Why Do Schools Fail? …”
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International Perspectives on Pragmatism.

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE; ON HUMAN DIGNITY; ASPECTS OF THE CRISIS OF THE WEST; PART I; SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND DISASTER PREPARATION; LIBERTARIANISM; DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM; WILLIAM JAMES AND THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR; PRAGMATISM AND POLITICAL PRACTICE; THE VALUES AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY IN DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM; THE RIGHT TO PERMANENT RESIDENCY AS A HUMAN RIGHT; PRAGMATIC ANARCHY IN A.N. …”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 4. by Shook, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary Pragmatism; Contents; Guest Editor Introduction to a Symposium on Robert Westbrook's Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth; Pragmatism and the Epistemic Defense of Democracy; Democracy, Epistemology, Inquiry: Comments on Westbrook's Democratic Hope; Two Democratic Hopes; Replies to Symposium Participants; On the Passing of Richard Rorty and the Future of American Philosophy; Rorty's Moral Philosophy for Liberal Democratic Culture; Dewey and Dancy and the Moral Authority of Rules; Embedded and Embodied Moral Life; Pragmatism for Pacifists; Book Reviews.…”
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Pets, People, and Pragmatism. by McKenna, Erin

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Understanding domestication and various philosophical views -- Horses -- American Pragmatism -- Dogs -- Cats -- Conclusion: making things better -- American Philosophy -- Index…”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 6. by Aboulafia, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Pragmatism and Naturalized Transcendental Subjectivity; Natural Agents: A Transcendental Argument for Pragmatic Naturalism; Naturalism, Death, and Functional Immortality; Must a Pragmatist Be a Historical Materialist?…”
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Contemporary Pragmatism, 5. by Aboulafia, Mitchell

Table of Contents: “…Semiosis, Dewey and Difference: Implications for Pragmatic Philosophy of EducationBook Reviews.…”
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Diachronic Pragmatics : Seven case studies in English illocutionary development. by Arnovick, Leslie K.

Table of Contents: “…DIACHRONIC PRAGMATICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Chapter 1. …”
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Pragmatic fashions : pluralism, democracy, relativism, and the absurd / by Stuhr, John J.

Table of Contents: “…Expressivism and pragmatism -- Chance vistas and sincerity in the cosmic labyrinth -- Philosophies as fashions -- Does philosophy progress?…”
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Interlanguage pragmatics : exploring institutional talk /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 Institutional Discourse and Interlanguage Pragmatics Research; 2 Writing Center Interaction: Institutional Discourse and the Role of Peer Tutors; 3 Negotiating an Institutional Identity: Individual Differences in NS and NNS Teacher Directives; 4 Before, During, and After the Event: Getting the Job (or Not) in an Employment Interview; 5 Discourse Strategies in the Context of Crosscultural Institutional Talk: Uncovering Interlanguage Pragmatics in the University Classroom; 6 English for Specific Purposes and Interlanguage Pragmatics.…”
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Pragmatics at Issue : Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987. Volume 1: Pragmatics at Issue. by Verschueren, Jef

Table of Contents: “…PRAGMATICS AT ISSUE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Preschoolers' active search for pragmatic knowledge; Children's pragmatic knowledge of narrative tasks; Psychopragmatics vs. sociopragmatics: the function of pragmatic markers in thinking-aloud protocols; Semantics, pragmatics, and situated meaning; Conceptual and semantic co-ordination in children's dialogue; How much pragmatics and how much grammar: the case of Haruai; A sociolinguistic model of successful speech act construction; Towards a model for generating cleft sentences.…”
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Pragmatism in the Americas /

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Pragmatism and Law : From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution. by Alberstein, Michal

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Maturing of the Pragmatic Idea in Law and Society (Or: The Fall, and the Rise of 'Philawsophy') -- 2 Settled Law and the Law-That-Is-Not-But-Ought-To-Be: The Pragmatic Philosophy of Dispute Resolution (Or: Why Couldn't Henry Hart Speak?) …”
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Pragmatics of Japanese : perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Pragmatics of Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Dedication; References; Foreword; Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1. …”
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Animal pragmatism : rethinking human-nonhuman relationships /

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatism and the future of human-nonhuman relationships / Andrew Light and Erin McKenna -- "What does Rome know of rat and lizard?"…”
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Cognitive pragmatics : the mental processes of communication / by Bara, Bruno G., 1949-

Subjects: “…Pragmatics.…”
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Rethinking Pragmatism : From William James to Contemporary Philosophy. by Schwartz, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Bibliographic Key; Introduction; Background Themes; 1: The Place of Values in Inquiry (Lecture I); 2: The Pragmatic Maxim and Pragmatic Instrumentalism (Lecture II); 3: Substance and Other Metaphysical Claims (Lecture III); 4: Materialism, Physicalism, and Reduction (Lecture IV); 5: Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V); 6: Pragmatic Semantics and Pragmatic Truth (Lecture VI); 7: Worldmaking (Lecture VII); 8: Belief, Hope, and Conjecture (Lecture VIII); Index.…”
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Cognitive Pragmatics : Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness. by Mazzone, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of contents; Introduction; 1 Relevance; 2 Associative and inferential processes; 3 Automatic and controlled processes; 4 Mindreading, pragmatics, and modularity; 5 Rational and cognitive: an opposition?…”
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Pragmatics and semantics : an empiricist theory / by Kates, Carol A., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatics and Semantics -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. …”
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The Pragmatic Perspective : Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. by Verschueren, Jef

Table of Contents: “…THE PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PART I. …”
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Discursive pragmatics /

Table of Contents: “…Discursive Pragmatics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface to the series; Acknowledgements; Discursive pragmatics; Appraisal; Cohesion and coherence; Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis; Enonciation; Figures of speech; Genre; Humor; Intertextuality; Manipulation; Narrative; Polyphony; Pragmatic markers; Public discourse; Text and discourse linguistics; Text linguistics; Index.…”
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