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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions

Key Objectives

Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Provide a general description of pragmatism.

2.

Distinguish the pragmatic views of C. S. Pierce from those of William James and John Dewey.

3.

Provide a general description of analysis and show how it evolved in British philosophy.

4.

Describe the main features of Bertrand Russell's logical atomism.

5.

Explain phenomenalism and why it was attractive to many analytic philosophers.

6.

Define foundationalism and realism.

7.

Describe the postphenomenalist attacks on foundationalism and realism.

8.

Give a general description of the philosophy of mind.

9.

Distinguish dualism from the physicalist alternatives of behaviorism, identity theory, and functionalism.








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