Speculative pragmatism /

This book undertakes the construction of an original speculative theory based upon-but going beyond-the works of Peirce, James, Dewey, Lewis, and Mead. What Rosenthal (Loyola University, New Orleans) makes cogent and clear is the radical novelty of the worldview embodied in the pragmatists. From their various perspectives, they express what is implicit in the scientific revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. Most recent philosophers (including language analysts in general and W. Quine and R. Rorty in particular) have not seen that this worldview makes obsolete the whole range of traditional philosophic dichotomies; consequently, they have misread the classical pragmatic enterprise. More broadly, Rosenthal's theory fulfills her aim to help enlighten the human condition. List of works cited. Important for all undergraduate and graduate libraries.-D. Rucker, Skidmore College