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SUMMARY:Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism - Cheryl Misak (University of
  Toronto)
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DESCRIPTION:Margaret MacDonald may be remembered as a founder of the journ
 al _Analysis_ and a note-taker (along with Alice Ambrose) in Wittgenstein'
 s classes in the mid-1930s. But she is also one of Britain's two most impo
 rtant pragmatists\, the other being Frank Ramsey. This paper traces MacDon
 ald's sophisticated pragmatism about the relation between our thoughts and
  the world\, and about induction\, hypotheses\, and laws of nature. It sho
 ws that she made the important pragmatist distinction between _knowledge t
 hat_ and _knowledge how_ and argues that she should be returned to centre 
 stage in the history of philosophy.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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