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    The American Pragmatists.Cheryl Misak - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the 1870s to the present day. She traces the connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy, and draws out the continuing influence of pragmatist ideas in the recent history of philosophy.
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    Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein.Cheryl J. Misak - 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
    Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more and less objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism (...)
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    Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation.Cheryl Misak - 1999 - New York: Routledge.
    Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of pragmatism: a true belief is one upon which inquiry could not improve, a belief which would not be defeated by experience and argument. This account is not only an improvement on the views of central figures such as Rawls and Habermas, but it can also make sense (...)
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    Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers.Cheryl Misak - 2020 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells the story of his extraordinary life and intellectual achievement.
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    Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers.Cheryl Misak - 2020 - The Philosophers' Magazine 91:65-69.
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  6. Truth and the end of inquiry: a Peircean account of truth.Cheryl J. Misak - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book, Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce's texts and to the requirements of a suitable account of truth. An important argument of the book is that we must be sensitive to the difference between offering a definition of truth and engaging in a (...)
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  7. Making Disagreement Matter: Pragmatism and Deliberative Democracy.Cheryl J. Misak - 2004 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (1):9 - 22.
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    New pragmatists.Cheryl Misak (ed.) - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The best of Peirce, James, and Dewey has thus resurfaced in deep, interesting, and fruitful ways, explored in this volume by David Bakhurst, Arthur Fine, Ian ...
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  9. Pragmatism and deflationism.Cheryl Misak - 2007 - In New pragmatists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 68--90.
     
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    Verificationism: Its History and Prospects.Cheryl J. Misak - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    _Verificationism_ is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers. C.J. Misak surveys the precursors, the main proponents and the rehabilitators. Unlike traditional studies, she follows verificationist theory beyond the demise of (...)
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  11. The Standards Problem in Conceptual Engineering.Cheryl Misak - 2024 - Analysis 84 (2):358-367.
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    Debate: Pragmatist Epistemology and Democratic Theory: A Reply to Eric MacGilvray.Cheryl Misak & Robert B. Talisse - 2014 - Journal of Political Philosophy 22 (3):366-376.
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  13. The Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein.Cheryl Misak - 2016 - Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (5).
    An underappreciated fact in the history of analytic philosophy is that American pragmatism had an early and strong influence on the Vienna Circle. The path of that influence goes from Charles Peirce to Frank Ramsey to Ludwig Wittgenstein to Moritz Schlick. That path is traced in this paper, and along the way some standard understandings of Ramsey and Wittgenstein, especially, are radically altered.
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    The Cambridge companion to Peirce.Cheryl Misak (ed.) - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of pragmatism, is generally considered the most significant American philosopher. Popularized by William James and John Dewey, pragmatism advocates that our philosophical theories be linked to experience and practice. The essays in this volume reveal how Peirce developed this concept.
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    Williams, Pragmatism, and the Law.Cheryl Misak - 2020 - Res Publica 27 (2):155-170.
    This paper views Bernard Williams through the lens of the pragmatist tradition. The central insight of pragmatism is that philosophy must start with human practice, in contrast to high theory or metaphysics. Williams was one of the twentieth century’s most able proponents of this insight, especially when considering the topics of ethics and the law. Williams never saw himself as a pragmatist, because he took Richard Rorty’s radical relativism to be the exemplar of the position. But I shall suggest that (...)
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    The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century.Cheryl Misak & Huw Price (eds.) - 2016 - Oxford: Oup/Ba.
    Pragmatism is the idea that philosophical concepts must start with, and remain linked to human experience and inquiry. This book traces and assesses the influence of American pragmatism on British philosophy, with emphasis on Cambridge in the inter-war period, post-war Oxford, and recent developments.
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    Grace de Laguna: American pragmatist.Cheryl Misak - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2):1-9.
    This paper explores the under-recognized Grace de Laguna’s relationship to the tradition of American pragmatism, the tradition that was dominant in her time and place and the emerging tradition of analytic philosophy. It argues that while de Laguna mounted some challenges to pragmatism, they do not hit their mark and while de Laguna at times distanced herself from pragmatism, she ought to be seen as part of that tradition, as well as part of the tradition of analytic philosophy.
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    Experience, Narrative, and Ethical Deliberation.Cheryl Misak - 2008 - Ethics 118 (4):614-632.
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    A Sensible Pragmatist Conception of Truth.Cheryl Misak - 2022 - Philosophy 97 (3):275-294.
    This essay traces the evolution of the pragmatist elements in Wiggins's distinctive view of truth and shows its connections to the founder of pragmatism, C.S. Peirce and one of Peirce's greatest successors, F.P. Ramsey. Wiggin's pragmatism, like that of Peirce and Ramsey, is a pragmatism that attempts to arrive at what Wiggins calls ‘a sensible subjectivism’ – an account of truth that respects both the human inventiveness and the objectivity that are each a part of our search for the truth.
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  20. (1 other version)A culture of justification: The pragmatist's epistemic argument for democracy.Cheryl Misak - 2008 - Episteme 5 (1):pp. 94-105.
    The pragmatist view of politics is at its very heart epistemic, for it treats morals and politics as a kind of deliberation or inquiry, not terribly unlike other kinds of inquiry. With the exception of Richard Rorty, the pragmatists argue that morals and politics, like science, aim at the truth or at getting things right and that the best method for achieving this aim is a method they sometimes call the scientific method or the method of intelligence – what would (...)
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  21. Deflating Truth: Pragmatism vs. Minimalism.Cheryl Misak - 1998 - The Monist 81 (3):407 - 425.
    It seems that no philosopher these days wants a theory of truth which can be accused of being metaphysical. But even if we agree that grandiose metaphysics is to be spurned, even if we agree that our theory of truth should be a deflated one, the controversy does not die down. A variety of deflationist options present themselves. Some, with Richard Rorty, take the notion of truth to be so wedded to metaphysics that we are advised to drop it altogether. (...)
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    Language and Experience for Pragmatism.Cheryl Misak - 2014 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2).
    It is sometimes said that contemporary pragmatists place too much emphasis on language and not enough on experience. This objection might hold for the pragmatism of Richard Rorty and his students, but it does not hold for the pragmatism of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. I shall argue that we should return to the classical pragmatists and their truth-and-experience position. Indeed, an important insight at the very heart of pragmatism is that language and experience cannot be pulled (...)
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    Narrative evidence and evidence‐based medicine.Cheryl J. Misak - 2010 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2):392-397.
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    Making Disagreement Matter.Cheryl Misak - 2011 - In Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin (eds.), The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce Through the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 471-484.
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  25. Charles Sanders Peirce on Necessity.Catherine Legg & Cheryl Misak - 2016 - In Adriane Rini, Edwin Mares & Max Cresswell (eds.), Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 256-278.
    Necessity is a touchstone issue in the thought of Charles Peirce, not least because his pragmatist account of meaning relies upon modal terms. We here offer an overview of Peirce’s highly original and multi-faceted take on the matter. We begin by considering how a self-avowed pragmatist and fallibilist can even talk about necessary truth. We then outline the source of Peirce’s theory of representation in his three categories of Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, (monadic, dyadic and triadic relations). These have modal (...)
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    Truth, Rationality and Pragmatism: Themes from Peirce.Cheryl Misak - 2002 - Mind 111 (441):119-122.
  27. Peirce, Levi, and the aims of inquiry.Cheryl Misak - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (2):256-265.
    Isaac Levi uses C. S. Peirce's fallibilism as a foil for his own "epistemological infallibilism". I argue that Levi's criticisms of Peirce do not hit their target, and that the two pragmatists agree on the fundamental issues concerning background knowledge, certainty, revision of belief, and the aims of inquiry.
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    6 CS Peirce on Vital Matters1.Cheryl Misak - 2004 - In The Cambridge companion to Peirce. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 150.
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    Ramsey, Pragmatism, and the Vienna Circle.Cheryl Misak - 2019 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 11 (1).
    Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) is usually taken to be sympathetic to the Vienna Circle’s project. I will argue that this is not right. Ramsey was a pragmatist, and he put pragmatist objections to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, objections which also had the Vienna Circle as their target. Ramsey thought the Circle’s position (like Wittgenstein’s) was mistaken in that, instead of starting with human inquiry, it tried to construct the world out of elementary particulars and logic, and resulted in an unacceptable solipsism. This paper (...)
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    Ian Hacking (1936–2023).Cheryl Misak - 2024 - Common Knowledge 30 (1):1-6.
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    2011 Presidential Address: American Pragmatism and Indispensability Arguments.Cheryl Misak - 2011 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 47 (3):261-273.
    In the early- to mid- 1870s, William James started to argue that if one needs to believe something, then one ought to believe it, even if there is no evidence in its favor. It is not easy to unwind the various things that James said about what he called the will to believe, but one thing is clear. He was initially tempted to put forward a very strong point and despite the refinements he was eventually to make, his is the (...)
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    Medically Inappropriate or Futile Treatment: Deliberation and Justification.Cheryl J. Misak, Douglas B. White & Robert D. Truog - 2016 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 41 (1):90-114.
    This paper reframes the futility debate, moving away from the question “Who decides when to end what is considered to be a medically inappropriate or futile treatment?” and toward the question “How can society make policy that will best account for the multitude of values and conflicts involved in such decision-making?” It offers a pragmatist moral epistemology that provides us with a clear justification of why it is important to take best standards, norms, and physician judgment seriously and a clear (...)
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    Deflating Truth.Cheryl Misak - 1998 - The Monist 81 (3):407-425.
    It seems that no philosopher these days wants a theory of truth which can be accused of being metaphysical. But even if we agree that grandiose metaphysics is to be spurned, even if we agree that our theory of truth should be a deflated one, the controversy does not die down. A variety of deflationist options present themselves. Some, with Richard Rorty, take the notion of truth to be so wedded to metaphysics that we are advised to drop it altogether. (...)
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  34. Icu psychosis and patient autonomy: Some thoughts from the inside.Cheryl Misak - 2005 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (4):411 – 430.
    I shall draw on my experience of being an ICU patient to make some practical, ethical, and philosophical points about the care of the critically ill. The recurring theme in this paper is ICU psychosis. I suggest that discharged patients ought to be educated about it; I discuss the obstacles in the way of accurately measuring it; I argue that we must rethink autonomy in light of it; and I suggest that the self disintegrates in the face of it.
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    The Pragmatic Maxim.Cheryl Misak - 2010 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 17 (1):76-87.
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    Pragmatism and Pluralism.Cheryl Misak - 2005 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (1):129 - 135.
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    1 Charles Sanders Peirce 1839-1914).Cheryl Misak - 2004 - In The Cambridge companion to Peirce. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1.
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    Ryle's Debt to Pragmatism and Margaret Macdonald.Cheryl Misak - 2024 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (4):639-656.
    In this essay, I argue that Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 _The Concept of Mind_ owes much to the little-known work of Margaret Macdonald. In 1937, Macdonald presented to Ryle her expansion of the pragmatist ideas she found in C. S. Peirce and F. P. Ramsey: (1) beliefs are dispositions; (2) there is a distinction between _knowledge how_ and _knowledge that_; and (3) laws are inference tickets or rules with which we meet the future. It is my contention that Ryle drew on, (...)
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    Medically Inappropriate or Futile Treatment: Deliberation and Justification.Cheryl J. Misak, Douglas B. White & Robert D. Truog - 2015 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy:jhv035.
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    Klein on James on the Will to Believe.Cheryl Misak - 2015 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1):118-28.
    This commentary explores the disagreement between Alex Klein and Cheryl Misak about the core insights of American Pragmatism, against a background of agreement. Both take the history of early American pragmatism to be a vital part of the history of analytic philosophy, not a radical break with it. But Misak argues that James seeks to loosen the usual epistemic standards so that religious and scientific belief can both be justified by a unitary set of evidentiary rules, and Klein argues that (...)
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  41. C.S. Peirce On Vital Matters: C. S. Peirce sobre assuntos vitais.Cheryl Misak - 2002 - Cognitio 3.
    : C.S. Peirce is infamous for his assertion that the ideas of truth and belief are out of place in vital or ethical matters. We must go on instinct and custom. But he also asserts that his view of truth is applicable to ethics - a true belief about what is right or wrong is the belief that would stand up to all deliberation, experience and argument. I shall resolve this tension in Peirce's work in favor of the cognitivist reading. (...)
     
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  42. The reception of early American pragmatism.Cheryl Misak - 2008 - In The Oxford handbook of American philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Reply to Four Instructive Critics.Cheryl Misak - 2013 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 49 (3):434.
    Allow me to begin by thanking Alex Klein, Bjorn Ramberg, Alan Richardson, and Robert Talisse for providing such an excellent set of commentaries on The American Pragmatists, as well as Henry Jackman, for organizing the session at the Canadian Philosophical Association meetings that provided the first forum for the discussion. In this response, I will speak to the general meta-philosophical questions posed by the four commentators, as well as to the more local challenges set to me.All the authors, in different (...)
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    There Can Be No Difference Anywhere that Doesn't Make a Difference Elsewhere.Cheryl Misak - 2018 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54 (3):417.
    My title is of course drawn from William James's Pragmatism: A New Name for some Old Ways of Thinking. The five excellent critics of Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein have zeroed in on the profound questions at the heart of pragmatism. All of us working in the tradition should thank them, and I happily do so. In what follows, I will explore the supposed differences between their views and my own. I hope to persuade my (...)
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    William H. Newton-Smith (1943–2023).James Robert Brown & Cheryl Misak - 2023 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 35 (2):205-208.
    William (Bill) Newton-Smith was a renowned Canadian philosopher of science who spent his career largely in Oxford and then at the Central European University in Hungary.Newton-Smith was born in Ori...
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    Pragmatism and bivalence.Cheryl Misak - 1990 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (2):171 – 179.
    Abstract The success of the pragmatic account of truth is often thought to founder on the principle of bivalence?the principle which holds that every genuine statement in the indicative mood is either true or false. For pragmatists must, it seems, claim that the principle does not hold for theoretical statements and observation statements about the past. That is, it seems that pragmatists must deny objective truth?values to these perfectly respectable sorts of hypotheses. In this paper, after examining three pragmatist attitudes (...)
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    Pragmatism and the Transcendental Turn in Truth and Ethics.Cheryl Misak - 1994 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4):739 - 775.
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    The Oxford handbook of American philosophy.Cheryl Misak (ed.) - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Cheryl Misak presents the first collective study of the development of philosophy in North America, from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century.
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    Richardson on the construction of moral norms.Cheryl Misak - 2023 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 106 (1):251-256.
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    Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis: Ten Studies, by David Wiggins.Cheryl Misak - forthcoming - Mind:fzac037.
    There are few finalities in philosophy. No one sees this as sharply as David Wiggins, who is always refining and improving his views. Here he has revised and re.
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