@article{Ramberg2013,
author = "Bjørn T. Ramberg",
title = "{Being Constructive: On Misak's Creation of Pragmatism}",
year = 2013,
journal = "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society",
volume = 49,
number = "3",
pages = "396-404",
issn = "00091774",
abstract = "{This commentary on Cheryl Misak's The American Pragmatists opens with a schematic distinction between Type I philosophers, who think of their problems in ahistorical terms, and Type II philosophers, who take the genesis of the vocabulary in which problems are stated to have philosophical import. I suggest that Misak is a moderate Type II philosopher, who constructs a successful narrative of pragmatism around the issue of objectivity. The narrative carefully traces the dialectic of convergence and conflict that shapes pragmatist thought on this central topic, smoothly connecting-both historically and systematically-with central concerns in contemporary Anglophone philosophy. Misak thus achieves a main aim, namely, to open avenues of dialogical engagement across sub-disciplinary boundaries. Success has a cost, of course, and I conclude by briefly suggesting what may be left in the shadows cast by this generally illuminating story.}",
keywords = "Cheryl Misak, Pragmatism, Objectivity",
language = "English",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/ramberg-bj%C3%B8rn-t-2013-being-constructive-misaks-creation-pragmatism}"
}
