EXPLODING A MYTH: C. I. LEWIS, PRAGMATISM, AND THE GIVEN

• Authors: Cheryl Misak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Clarence Irving Lewis is one of the mostly unjustly neglected philosophers of the last century. This paper shows how he is the inheritor of Peirce’s view; and did not succumb to the myth of the given, but rather, put forward a view that was picked up, almost in whole, by his student Quine.

Keywords

EN

PEIRCE CH. S.; PRAGMATISM; LEWIS C. I.; QUINE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 332 – 341

Contributors

author

Cheryl Misak

• University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, M5R 2M8, Canada