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Cambridge Pragmatism: A Research Workshop is a podcast hosted by Cambridge University. It has 8 episodes, with the latest published June 2012.

Cambridge Pragmatism: a Research Workshop31 May — 1 June, 2012 :: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, CambridgeThemesPragmatists approach philosophical problems by enquiring about the practical role of disputed notions — truth, causation, value, or necessity, for example — in human life. Over the past century, many distinguished Cambridge philosophers have been pragmatists in one sense or another. Most famously of all, the remarkable shift in Wittgenstein's views when he returned to Cambridge in 1929 is distinctly pragmatist in nature: it focuses on the many things that we humans do with language. In the same period, many of Frank Ramsey's contributions to topics such as probability, belief, causation and laws have a deeply practical character. Later, it is easy to identify pragmatist strands in von Wright’s views of causation, Anscombe’s writings on indexical thought, Mellor’s work on tense and on success semantics, and Craig’s view of knowledge, to name just four of the

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