Cambridge Pragmatism by Cheryl Misak

From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein

A detailed study of how American pragmatist ideas were received, transformed, and integrated into early twentieth-century Cambridge philosophy, tracing connections between pragmatist themes—such as the practical dimensions of belief, the nature of truth, and the role of inquiry and probability—and the work of key Cambridge figures; it argues that pragmatist thought helped shape analytic debates about meaning, judgment, and explanation, showing continuities and tensions as philosophers adapted pragmatism to their own concerns.