Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the reception of American pragmatism in England. Supposedly it never recovered from the attacks of Russell and Moore; but Misak shows that Frank Ramsey, under the influence of Peirce, developed a pragmatist position of great promise, and that he transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein

Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy, and former Provost, at the University of Toronto. She works on American Pragmatism, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine, and is the author of The American Pragmatists, Truth and the End of Inquiry, Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation, and Verificationism: Its History and Prospects.

• Introduction


• Part I Cambridge, Massachusetts


• 1: Peirce


• 2: James


• 3: Bridges across the Atlantic


• Part II Cambridge, England


• 4: The Anti-Pragmatism of Pre-War Cambridge


• 5: The Pull of Pragmatism on Russell


• 6: Ramsey


• 7: Wittgenstein: Post-Tractatus


• Conclusion