Truth and the End of Inquiry

C. S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book C. J. Misak argues for and elucidates the pragmatic account of truth, paying attention both to Peirce''s texts and to the requirements for a suitable account of truth. An important argument of the book is that we must be sensitive to the ...