Diapositive 1
... correspond to the actual state of affairs. This type of theory posits a relationship between thoughts or statements on the one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the classical Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristot ...
... correspond to the actual state of affairs. This type of theory posits a relationship between thoughts or statements on the one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the classical Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristot ...
Pragmatism`s Legacy to Sociology Respecified
... Thus, looking for a canonical definition of the letter of pragmatism and striving to adhere to it seems to be a misleading undertaking. The best contemporary sociologists should do, I would argue, is retrieving a series of basic methodological orientations by browsing through the pragmatist literatu ...
... Thus, looking for a canonical definition of the letter of pragmatism and striving to adhere to it seems to be a misleading undertaking. The best contemporary sociologists should do, I would argue, is retrieving a series of basic methodological orientations by browsing through the pragmatist literatu ...
What Pragmatism Is
... shall begin by doubting everything, and says that there is only one thing that you cannot doubt, as if doubting were “as easy as lying.” Another proposes that we should begin by observing “the first impressions of sense,” forgetting that our very percepts are the results of cognitive elaboration. Bu ...
... shall begin by doubting everything, and says that there is only one thing that you cannot doubt, as if doubting were “as easy as lying.” Another proposes that we should begin by observing “the first impressions of sense,” forgetting that our very percepts are the results of cognitive elaboration. Bu ...
The Journey PPT Notes
... • Are Mind and Spirit limited to ‘grey matter’, i.e. the brain? • How persuasive is Kreeft’s analogy of a materialist philosophy as leaves on a tree, where neither are right or wrong, true or false, each simply is? • Can a material ‘Self’ be morally responsible? If so, does it refute materialism, si ...
... • Are Mind and Spirit limited to ‘grey matter’, i.e. the brain? • How persuasive is Kreeft’s analogy of a materialist philosophy as leaves on a tree, where neither are right or wrong, true or false, each simply is? • Can a material ‘Self’ be morally responsible? If so, does it refute materialism, si ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... rational aspiration – almost a regulatory idea in the Kantian sense. But to Bergson (who thinks to be in agreement with James on this) it is not even a possibility. It is a rationalised desire, due to an aspiration of reason of a safe degree of knowledge that could just be realised through a sort of ...
... rational aspiration – almost a regulatory idea in the Kantian sense. But to Bergson (who thinks to be in agreement with James on this) it is not even a possibility. It is a rationalised desire, due to an aspiration of reason of a safe degree of knowledge that could just be realised through a sort of ...
4 - Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
... from experience up to this point, is perhaps more intimately connected to not being able to learn anything in the future than we are likely to realize. In any event, not to know anything (actually to be a skeptic) would possibly be endurable if it did not underwrite (or appear to underwrite) the fat ...
... from experience up to this point, is perhaps more intimately connected to not being able to learn anything in the future than we are likely to realize. In any event, not to know anything (actually to be a skeptic) would possibly be endurable if it did not underwrite (or appear to underwrite) the fat ...
Problems in Applying Peirce to Social Sciences
... In them Peirce uses an expression consisting of pronouns, I – It – Thou. Wiley thinks, as is prima facie understandable, that these terms refer to Peirce’s self-theory, as other pragmatist philosophers use such pronouns in that sense, like William James (1890) and George Herbert Mead (1934) do with ...
... In them Peirce uses an expression consisting of pronouns, I – It – Thou. Wiley thinks, as is prima facie understandable, that these terms refer to Peirce’s self-theory, as other pragmatist philosophers use such pronouns in that sense, like William James (1890) and George Herbert Mead (1934) do with ...
Applying Peirce to Social Studies – Some Do`s and Don`ts
... In them Peirce uses an expression consisting of pronouns, I – It – Thou. Wiley thinks, as is prima facie understandable, that these terms refer to Peirce’s self-theory, as other pragmatist philosophers use such pronouns in that sense, like William James (1890) and George Herbert Mead (1934) do with ...
... In them Peirce uses an expression consisting of pronouns, I – It – Thou. Wiley thinks, as is prima facie understandable, that these terms refer to Peirce’s self-theory, as other pragmatist philosophers use such pronouns in that sense, like William James (1890) and George Herbert Mead (1934) do with ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... “better structure”. By championing the ‘engineering’ conception, then, Blackburn and other self-styled ‘conceptual engineers’ like Sally Haslanger and Herman Cappelen set themselves against the tradition that dominated Strawson’s Oxford. However, one reason for the conservatism of ordinary language ...
... “better structure”. By championing the ‘engineering’ conception, then, Blackburn and other self-styled ‘conceptual engineers’ like Sally Haslanger and Herman Cappelen set themselves against the tradition that dominated Strawson’s Oxford. However, one reason for the conservatism of ordinary language ...
Bertrand Russell (1872
... There is no proof that there is only one coherent system of beliefs. In fact, it seems that, in various fields, there is more than one coherent body of beliefs. The concept of coherence is based on the laws of logic (e.g., the law of non-contradiction); but the laws of logic “themselves cannot be es ...
... There is no proof that there is only one coherent system of beliefs. In fact, it seems that, in various fields, there is more than one coherent body of beliefs. The concept of coherence is based on the laws of logic (e.g., the law of non-contradiction); but the laws of logic “themselves cannot be es ...
Correspondence, Coherence, and Pragmatic Theories of Truth
... The tangible facts for us consist for us in the differences in action that will come from our beliefs about those facts. What does this sound like? “To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may inv ...
... The tangible facts for us consist for us in the differences in action that will come from our beliefs about those facts. What does this sound like? “To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may inv ...
Kantianism, Pragmatism, and Autonomy Phillip McReynolds Although
... lies in the pragmatists’ tendency to focus upon the malleability of individualother/organism-environment relations. For the pragmatists there doesn’t seem to be a simple, concrete, whole, separate self as Kant’s notion of autonomy requires. Pragmatists tend to focus on concepts like transaction at t ...
... lies in the pragmatists’ tendency to focus upon the malleability of individualother/organism-environment relations. For the pragmatists there doesn’t seem to be a simple, concrete, whole, separate self as Kant’s notion of autonomy requires. Pragmatists tend to focus on concepts like transaction at t ...
PARADOX: THEME AND SEMIOTIC VARIATIONS* Michael Shapiro
... 6.178, 180). He frankly admitted the 'difficulty of the arithmetician who is awkward in finding an appropriate expression of that which Achilles does without the least embarrassment'. Apparently, the difficulties ...
... 6.178, 180). He frankly admitted the 'difficulty of the arithmetician who is awkward in finding an appropriate expression of that which Achilles does without the least embarrassment'. Apparently, the difficulties ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... beliefs. After all, he argued, any case that we might make for one of those methods over another would presuppose the integrity of some method, about which a similar question would then arise. Eventually, it looks as though we will reach a point at which all we can say is: This is simply what we do ...
... beliefs. After all, he argued, any case that we might make for one of those methods over another would presuppose the integrity of some method, about which a similar question would then arise. Eventually, it looks as though we will reach a point at which all we can say is: This is simply what we do ...
Social Theory
... Inductive inferences are based on the frequency by which events occur in a sample and can be assessed by probability logic. At the outset and to a modern reader, it seems un-reasonable to fuse probability equations with the exercise of self-control! It is a statistical fact that cigarette -smoking “ ...
... Inductive inferences are based on the frequency by which events occur in a sample and can be assessed by probability logic. At the outset and to a modern reader, it seems un-reasonable to fuse probability equations with the exercise of self-control! It is a statistical fact that cigarette -smoking “ ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... prompted me to investigate further into Peirce’s scientific fallibilism. ...
... prompted me to investigate further into Peirce’s scientific fallibilism. ...
Ethics of terminology
... defined in his “maxim of pragmatism”: “In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the ...
... defined in his “maxim of pragmatism”: “In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the ...
SI Hayakawa, Charles Sanders Peirce and the Scientific Method
... larger social life of the human community. In Peirce’s words: “The social impulse is against it… Unless we make ourselves hermits, we shall necessarily influence each other’s opinions; so that the problem becomes how to fix belief, not in the individual merely, but in the community” (CP, vol.5, par. ...
... larger social life of the human community. In Peirce’s words: “The social impulse is against it… Unless we make ourselves hermits, we shall necessarily influence each other’s opinions; so that the problem becomes how to fix belief, not in the individual merely, but in the community” (CP, vol.5, par. ...
New Pragmatism
... Dewey: “Philosophy must cease to be a device for dealing with problems of philosophy, and become a method for dealing with problems of men” (“The need for a recovery of philosophy”) truth vs. Truth, right vs. Right James: “‘The true’ [. . .] is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ...
... Dewey: “Philosophy must cease to be a device for dealing with problems of philosophy, and become a method for dealing with problems of men” (“The need for a recovery of philosophy”) truth vs. Truth, right vs. Right James: “‘The true’ [. . .] is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ...
What is Pragmatism - Valdosta State University
... Philosophical Developments Contextualism Logical Positivism Post-modernism ...
... Philosophical Developments Contextualism Logical Positivism Post-modernism ...
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Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
... b. The experimental scientist is against the idea that the physicist seeks something deeper than the laws of possible experience. 2. The author sometimes came to find in Kant, Berkeley and Spinoza ways of thinking that recalled the laboratory. 3. The rational purport of a word lies exclusively in it ...
... b. The experimental scientist is against the idea that the physicist seeks something deeper than the laws of possible experience. 2. The author sometimes came to find in Kant, Berkeley and Spinoza ways of thinking that recalled the laboratory. 3. The rational purport of a word lies exclusively in it ...
The Essentials of Pragmatism
... -doubt is the privation of such a habit, and therefore an inhibiter of action; -truth is not a metaphysical entity, but where experience is gradually leading our belief, the quelling of doubt. -what you believe you always believe as true: inquiry can only begin with genuine doubt. -what you cannot h ...
... -doubt is the privation of such a habit, and therefore an inhibiter of action; -truth is not a metaphysical entity, but where experience is gradually leading our belief, the quelling of doubt. -what you believe you always believe as true: inquiry can only begin with genuine doubt. -what you cannot h ...