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Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on the Oxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J. L Austin. Cheryl Misak argues that Margaret Macdonald, a neglected British analytic philosopher and excellent scholar of American pragmatism, delivered core pragmatist ideas to her friend Ryle: the mind as a set of dispositions to behave; laws as 'inference tickets', and the distinction between knowing that something is true and knowing how to do something. Macdonald found these ideas in the work of the founder of pragmatism C. S. Peirce and his two most impressive followers, Clarence Irving Lewis in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Frank Ramsey in Cambridge, England. Ryle, it is argued, picked them up from Macdonald, though failed to acknowledge them as hers or as pragmatist. A lineage is also traced from American pragmatism to Austin's ideas that when we use words we perform actions, and that definitions must be fit for purpose. This route runs from Peirce and Lewis to Austin and through to contemporary conceptual engineers who follow in Austin's footsteps. Along the way, the views of Wittgenstein, Russell, Schiller, Ayer, and Cook Wilson are canvassed and assessed. In a Postscript, Misak outlines how pragmatism played out in the next generation of Oxford philosophers, such as Strawson and Wiggins.
Contents
Introduction
PART 1. CLASSICAL PRAGMATISM: ITS FRIENDS AND FOES
1: C. S. Peirce: Meaning, Action, Habit
2: C. I. Lewis: The Web of Belief
3: The Pack Ice of Logical Theory
4: Russell's Pragmatism(!)
5: Ramsey's Pragmatism
6: Wittgenstein Turns His Back on the Tractatus
7: Wittgenstein on Grammar and Rule Following
PART 2. PRAGMATISM AND EARLY OXFORD LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY
8: F. C. S. Schiller: 'Altogether beyond the Pale'
9: Cook Wilson and Prichard
10: The Early Ryle: The Rise of Oxford Analytic Philosophy
11: A. J. Ayer
12: Margaret Macdonald
PART 3. RYLE: KNOWING HOW
13: Tracking Ryle's Shift to Pragmatism
14: Knowing How and Knowing That
15: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine
16: Rule Following and Laws as Inference Tickets
PART 4. AUSTIN: DOING THINGS WITH WORDS
17: Austin's Linguistic Method
18: Unearthing the Influences on Austin
19: To Say Something Is to Do Something
20: Austin and Pragmatism
21: Postscript: The Next Generation
