Ethics without Ontology
... him on our farm. One day he had been drinking, and became enraged at one of our domestics and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man ...
... him on our farm. One day he had been drinking, and became enraged at one of our domestics and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man ...
Ethics of terminology
... I understand pragmatism to be a method of ascertaining the meanings, not of all ideas, but only of what I call "intellectual concepts" (CP 5.467). Peirce’s pragmaticistic concept of meaning is special type of logical meaning meaning is a ‘proposition’ that can be used as guiding the possible action. ...
... I understand pragmatism to be a method of ascertaining the meanings, not of all ideas, but only of what I call "intellectual concepts" (CP 5.467). Peirce’s pragmaticistic concept of meaning is special type of logical meaning meaning is a ‘proposition’ that can be used as guiding the possible action. ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... historical significance—as the announcement, commencement, and first formulation of the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that ...
... historical significance—as the announcement, commencement, and first formulation of the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that ...
A Tension in Pragmatist and Neo
... conviction that, as Peirce also puts it, “there is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice” (Peirce 1992: 131); or as he later frames it in 1903, “pragmatism teaches us [that] what we think is to be interpreted in terms of what we are prepare ...
... conviction that, as Peirce also puts it, “there is no distinction of meaning so fine as to consist in anything but a possible difference of practice” (Peirce 1992: 131); or as he later frames it in 1903, “pragmatism teaches us [that] what we think is to be interpreted in terms of what we are prepare ...
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh “Peirce`s Epistemic
... the operative principles of analogy and coherence are only presumptive in their force. Such a cognitively constitutive stance is not appropriate. But we can take the cognitively regulative approach that certain sorts of alternatives (“plausible” on the basis of preserving analogies) can be taken as ...
... the operative principles of analogy and coherence are only presumptive in their force. Such a cognitively constitutive stance is not appropriate. But we can take the cognitively regulative approach that certain sorts of alternatives (“plausible” on the basis of preserving analogies) can be taken as ...
Process Ontology in Early American Pragmatism, Buddhism, and
... their epistemologies are not easily presented in a manner that appeals to—or is acceptable to—traditional Western philosophers they have not garnered as much philosophical attention. William James introduced his notion of “radical empiricism” as the basis for Pragmatism after coming to realize that ...
... their epistemologies are not easily presented in a manner that appeals to—or is acceptable to—traditional Western philosophers they have not garnered as much philosophical attention. William James introduced his notion of “radical empiricism” as the basis for Pragmatism after coming to realize that ...
Social Theory
... Result: The beans come from this bag. However trivial as this `semi-logical´ operation may seem, it nevertheless has wide consequences. What kind of inference are we really dealing with? It does not have the same logical firmness as deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor pre ...
... Result: The beans come from this bag. However trivial as this `semi-logical´ operation may seem, it nevertheless has wide consequences. What kind of inference are we really dealing with? It does not have the same logical firmness as deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor pre ...
Pragmatism`s Legacy to Sociology Respecified
... attribute to them); and d) the primacy of practice over theory (action is the irremediable setting in which ordinary lives unfold) (Putnam 1994: 152). According to Putnam, the key idea Pragmatism has brought to theoretical reasoning – philosophical or social – is that fallibilism does not necessaril ...
... attribute to them); and d) the primacy of practice over theory (action is the irremediable setting in which ordinary lives unfold) (Putnam 1994: 152). According to Putnam, the key idea Pragmatism has brought to theoretical reasoning – philosophical or social – is that fallibilism does not necessaril ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... first reading, pragmatism’s central claim would be that beliefs are tools, and hence can be evaluated coherently only in terms of their utility and not in terms of their “agreement with reality” (with what’s “out there”) at least as that is classically understood. On this view, a belief is good if _ ...
... first reading, pragmatism’s central claim would be that beliefs are tools, and hence can be evaluated coherently only in terms of their utility and not in terms of their “agreement with reality” (with what’s “out there”) at least as that is classically understood. On this view, a belief is good if _ ...
Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
... c. “when my window was opened, because of the truth that stuffy air is malsain, a physical effort was brought into existence by the efficiency of a general and non-existent truth” (114) [Does he mean that truths do not really exist?] ...
... c. “when my window was opened, because of the truth that stuffy air is malsain, a physical effort was brought into existence by the efficiency of a general and non-existent truth” (114) [Does he mean that truths do not really exist?] ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... problematic parts of ordinary usage”. Here we get a sense of what better might connote, but only at the cost of limiting our interests to those that serve our scientific understanding. And that offers no real promise that the world will, as a result, be changed for the better. Contrasting Quinean p ...
... problematic parts of ordinary usage”. Here we get a sense of what better might connote, but only at the cost of limiting our interests to those that serve our scientific understanding. And that offers no real promise that the world will, as a result, be changed for the better. Contrasting Quinean p ...
Kantianism, Pragmatism, and Autonomy Phillip McReynolds Although
... Moreover, biological theory has benefited from developments in other fields such as systems theory and second order cybernetics that did not exist when Dewey wrote. An important development in this direction has been the concept of “autopoiesis” contributed by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana an ...
... Moreover, biological theory has benefited from developments in other fields such as systems theory and second order cybernetics that did not exist when Dewey wrote. An important development in this direction has been the concept of “autopoiesis” contributed by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana an ...
New Pragmatism
... expedient in the way of our behaving. [. . .] [T]he true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons” (James, Pragmatism 43; 106-107) Rorty: “For pragmatists, ‘truth’ is just the name of a property which all true statements sh ...
... expedient in the way of our behaving. [. . .] [T]he true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons” (James, Pragmatism 43; 106-107) Rorty: “For pragmatists, ‘truth’ is just the name of a property which all true statements sh ...
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 ...
What is Pragmatism - Valdosta State University
... pragmatists all held that the purpose of any theory/hypothesis should be to direct or redirect activity o theorizing is preparation for (a rehearsal, if you will, of) activity given this, there was a strong move to rid philosophy of the theory-practice dichotomy o thinking and doing, theory and ...
... pragmatists all held that the purpose of any theory/hypothesis should be to direct or redirect activity o theorizing is preparation for (a rehearsal, if you will, of) activity given this, there was a strong move to rid philosophy of the theory-practice dichotomy o thinking and doing, theory and ...
Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Pragmatism rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. Instead, pragmatists consider thought an instrument or tool for prediction, problem solving and action. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes.A few of the various but interrelated positions often characteristic of philosophers working from a pragmatist approach include:Epistemology (justification): a coherentist theory of justification that rejects the claim that all knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief. Coherentists hold that justification is solely a function of some relationship between beliefs, none of which are privileged beliefs in the way maintained by foundationalist theories of justification.Epistemology (truth): a deflationary or pragmatist theory of truth; the former is the epistemological claim that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement while the latter is the epistemological claim that assertions that predicate truth of a statement attribute the property of useful-to-believe to such a statement.Metaphysics: a pluralist view that there is more than one sound way to conceptualize the world and its content.Philosophy of science: an instrumentalist and scientific anti-realist view that a scientific concept or theory should be evaluated by how effectively it explains and predicts phenomena, as opposed to how accurately it describes objective reality.Philosophy of language: an anti-representationalist view that rejects analyzing the semantic meaning of propositions, mental states, and statements in terms of a correspondence or representational relationship and instead analyzes semantic meaning in terms of notions like dispositions to action, inferential relationships, and/or functional roles (e.g. behaviorism and inferentialism). Not to be confused with pragmatics, a sub-field of linguistics with no relation to philosophical pragmatism.Additionally, forms of empiricism, fallibilism, verificationism, and a Quineian naturalist metaphilosophy are all commonly elements of pragmatist philosophies. Many pragmatists are epistemological relativists and see this to be an important facet of their pragmatism (e.g. Richard Rorty), but this is controversial and other pragmatists argue such relativism to be seriously misguided (e.g. Hilary Putnam, Susan Haack).Charles Sanders Peirce (and his pragmatic maxim) deserves much of the credit for pragmatism, along with later twentieth century contributors, William James and John Dewey. Pragmatism enjoyed renewed attention after W. V. O. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars used a revised pragmatism to criticize logical positivism in the 1960s. Inspired by the work of Quine and Sellars, a brand of pragmatism known sometimes as neopragmatism gained influence through Richard Rorty, the most influential of the late twentieth century pragmatists along with Hilary Putnam and Robert Brandom. Contemporary pragmatism may be broadly divided into a strict analytic tradition and a ""neo-classical"" pragmatism (such as Susan Haack) that adheres to the work of Peirce, James, and Dewey.The word pragmatism derives from Greek πρᾶγμα (pragma), ""a thing, a fact"", which comes from πράσσω (prassō), ""to pass over, to practise, to achieve"". The word ""Pragmatism"" as a piece of technical terminology in philosophy refers to a specific set of associated philosophical views originating in the late twentieth-century. However, the phrase is often confused with ""pragmatism"" in the context of politics (which refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions) and with a non-technical use of ""pragmatism"" in ordinary contexts referring to dealing with matters in one's life realistically and in a way that is based on practical rather than abstract considerations.