Round 3: Tossup 12

A thinker from this school of thought who discussed normal and abnormal discourses in his conversational approach to knowledge described “private” writers as ironists. A thinker from this school included “tenacity” and “authority” as the first of his four methods of fixing our beliefs. The author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, (*) Richard Rorty, was a leading figure of this school’s “neo” branch. The example of a squirrel going around a tree appears in a book from this school which asserts that what is true is what proves itself (-5[1])useful in experience. (-5[1])For 10 points, what American school of philosophy’s members included C. S. Peirce (“purse”) and William James? (-5[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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