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1. 1. Truth And The End Of Inquiry

   A Peircean Account of Truth

   

   A careful defense of a Peircean, pragmatist account of truth that identifies truth with the outcome toward which genuine inquiry is aimed: what would be accepted at the end of an idealized, unconstrained inquiry. The book rejects both crude “what works” pragmatism and purely deflationary or mysterious metaphysical accounts, arguing instead that treating truth as the norm governing successful inquiry preserves a robust realism, defuses skeptical challenges, and illuminates the epistemic roles of justification, disagreement, and scientific practice.

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2. 2. The American Pragmatists

   

   A concise intellectual history and defense of American pragmatism that traces its development from the movement’s founders through later thinkers, explaining core commitments—pragmatic theories of truth, the centrality of inquiry and fallibilism, and the link between meaning and practice—and arguing that pragmatism offers a non‑skeptical, democratic approach to philosophical and public problems by emphasizing public justification, institutions, and the continued relevance of pragmatic methods to contemporary debates.