C.I. Lewis

Quentin Kammer is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, and member of the research center “Sciences, Philosophie, Humanites.” Defended in 2018, his PhD dissertation focuses on Nelson Goodman’s conception of the rightness of projection. He, along with Henri Wagner, translated in French, Lewis’s “A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori ” and Goodman’s “Snowflakes and Wastebaskets” devoted to Lewis’s pragmatism.Jean-Philippe Narboux is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. His recent articles include “Is Self-Consciousness Consciousness of One‘s Self?,” in Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (Routledge, 2018), “Anscombe’s Account of Voluntary Action in Intention ” ( Enrahonar , 2020), and “Conceptual Truth, Necessity, and Negation” ( The Monist , 2020).Henri Wagner is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. He mainly works on philosophy of logic and language. He is the editor of Hilary Putnam (Klēsis , no. 47, 2020) and has recently published “The Significance of the Division of Linguistic Labor” ( The Monist , volume 103, Issue 4, October 2020, 381–390).

"This book explores the major themes of what C.I. Lewis’s called his ‘conceptual pragmatism’, the Pragmatic a-priori and the Given element in experience, as they appear in his brilliant Mind and The World Order, and his contributions to Logic leading up to that work. These essays bring Lewis’s views into confrontation with other giants of age such as Carnap, Friedman, Goodman, Putnam, Quine, Russell, Sellars, and Sheffer, producing conversations crucial for understanding Lewis’s role in the emergence of philosophy as we understand it today."—Eric Dayton, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

• Introduction 1HENRI WAGNER1 Sheffer, Lewis, and the “Logocentric Predicament” 27JULIET FLOYD2 Strict Implication and the Pragmatic A Priori 104SANFORD SHIEH3 Aims and Claims of C. I. Lewis’s Conceptual Pragmatism 132HENRI WAGNER4 C. I. Lewis on the Intersubjective and the Constitution of Objectivity 167ARATA HAMAWAKI5 Relocating the Myth of the Given in Lewis and Sellars 195JAMES O’SHEA6 Spontaneity, Sensation, and the Myth of the Given 216THOMAS LAND7 Goodman and the Given: What Goodman Inherits From C. I. Lewis 240QUENTIN KAMMER8 C. I. Lewis: The Red and the Good 274THOMAS BALDWIN