Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... Mostly in this book I have speculated on causes, not justifications . . . . Even in the case of bodies, . . . , I offered no hope of justification. I entertained no thought of translating talk of bodies into talk of sense impressions, . . . I asked how, given our stimulations, we might have develope ...
... Mostly in this book I have speculated on causes, not justifications . . . . Even in the case of bodies, . . . , I offered no hope of justification. I entertained no thought of translating talk of bodies into talk of sense impressions, . . . I asked how, given our stimulations, we might have develope ...
quine`s argument from despair
... prompts us to try to develop a theory of knowledge” (1975b, 257). In order to restore confidence in both our everyday convictions and our scientific theories, traditional epistemologists seek to ground our beliefs upon something more secure. Quine often refers to this project as ‘the Cartesian dream ...
... prompts us to try to develop a theory of knowledge” (1975b, 257). In order to restore confidence in both our everyday convictions and our scientific theories, traditional epistemologists seek to ground our beliefs upon something more secure. Quine often refers to this project as ‘the Cartesian dream ...
- James Tartaglia
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
Collective Intentionality VI, Berkeley
... Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the Medium of Computation Philosophers typically articulate their claims in natural language, and leave it at that. But sometimes we can get a deeper understanding of a proposition by seeing it from a different perspective, by seeing it re-expressed it in a diff ...
... Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the Medium of Computation Philosophers typically articulate their claims in natural language, and leave it at that. But sometimes we can get a deeper understanding of a proposition by seeing it from a different perspective, by seeing it re-expressed it in a diff ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... (3) What makes the logical constants we have, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’, the right ones? Why can’t we stipulate whatever crazy thing we want? John Etchemendy made this point in a particularly strong way (with respect to Tarski’s definition, but a whole range of approaches is hostage to his criticism, including, ...
... (3) What makes the logical constants we have, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’, the right ones? Why can’t we stipulate whatever crazy thing we want? John Etchemendy made this point in a particularly strong way (with respect to Tarski’s definition, but a whole range of approaches is hostage to his criticism, including, ...
The Metaphysics of John Dewey, Part II
... virtue of making a numerical distinction between the subject and object of experience, cannot show how it is possible for them to stand in epistemic relations to each other, such as the subject perceiving and knowing the object. The same point is made by James: “Knowledge is impossible; for knower i ...
... virtue of making a numerical distinction between the subject and object of experience, cannot show how it is possible for them to stand in epistemic relations to each other, such as the subject perceiving and knowing the object. The same point is made by James: “Knowledge is impossible; for knower i ...
John Ryder ABSTRACT: Philosophers have
... might evaluate and benefit in our own work from what they offered. In Benjamin’s case the term in question is “language”, for Dewey it is “inference”, and for Buchler it is “judgment”. In all three cases the general issue is how we are to understand that aspect of experience in or through which we m ...
... might evaluate and benefit in our own work from what they offered. In Benjamin’s case the term in question is “language”, for Dewey it is “inference”, and for Buchler it is “judgment”. In all three cases the general issue is how we are to understand that aspect of experience in or through which we m ...
1 Revisiting Veblen`s “The Theory of the Leisure Class
... behave by behaving (James, 1890b, p. 423). Hence, it is possible to argue that appropriation means there is an impulse–good connection. This impulse–good connection does not exist originally and can change over time or be fixed rigidly. It is a matter of how consumers learn to put their inner impuls ...
... behave by behaving (James, 1890b, p. 423). Hence, it is possible to argue that appropriation means there is an impulse–good connection. This impulse–good connection does not exist originally and can change over time or be fixed rigidly. It is a matter of how consumers learn to put their inner impuls ...
4 - Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
... acknowledgement of experimental intelligence in its most radical implications. At the center of this acknowledgement, we encounter "an experimenter of flesh and blood"— that is, an embodied agent exemplifying experimental intelligence ("What Pragmatism Is" [1905], CP 5.424). This pragmatism is, at o ...
... acknowledgement of experimental intelligence in its most radical implications. At the center of this acknowledgement, we encounter "an experimenter of flesh and blood"— that is, an embodied agent exemplifying experimental intelligence ("What Pragmatism Is" [1905], CP 5.424). This pragmatism is, at o ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
James, Dewey, and Democracy
... Dewey was selective in what he incorporated into his thought from the Principles, for it was a profoundly conflicted, even contradictory, text, torn between epistemological dualism and an antidualistic “radical empiricism” grounded in evolutionary biology. Dewey was sharply critical of remnants of d ...
... Dewey was selective in what he incorporated into his thought from the Principles, for it was a profoundly conflicted, even contradictory, text, torn between epistemological dualism and an antidualistic “radical empiricism” grounded in evolutionary biology. Dewey was sharply critical of remnants of d ...
Dewey`s Concepts of Stability and Precariousness - Purdue e-Pubs
... the importance of his philosophy of education to his general philosophy: Although a book called Democracy and Education was for many years that in which my philosophy, such as it is, was most fully expounded, I do not know that philosophic critics, as distinct from teachers, have ever had recourse t ...
... the importance of his philosophy of education to his general philosophy: Although a book called Democracy and Education was for many years that in which my philosophy, such as it is, was most fully expounded, I do not know that philosophic critics, as distinct from teachers, have ever had recourse t ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... his view of the relationship among experience, knowledge, and reality, calling his view ‘immediate empiricism’.7 ...
... his view of the relationship among experience, knowledge, and reality, calling his view ‘immediate empiricism’.7 ...
Dewey`s Aesthetic Experience in the Nature
... Somaesthetics, together with the conception of „body consciousness” brought about an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject ...
... Somaesthetics, together with the conception of „body consciousness” brought about an important change in the understanding of the subject, including the subject as the author and the recipient of art. In particular the theory of aesthetic experience into which a corporeal and multi-sensual subject ...
The Objectivity of the Past
... justify, as the anti-realist would say, but to the extent to which it serves the purpose for which it is employed. Statements become, not meaningful or meaningless tout court but evaluable as meaningful only to the extent that they allow us to achieve the purpose for which they are – or were – used. ...
... justify, as the anti-realist would say, but to the extent to which it serves the purpose for which it is employed. Statements become, not meaningful or meaningless tout court but evaluable as meaningful only to the extent that they allow us to achieve the purpose for which they are – or were – used. ...
PRAGMATISM, REALISM, AND RELIGION
... Putnam draws upon both James and Dewey in support of his rejection of metaphysical realism, but it should be noted that he defines the term in a highly controversial and burdensome way. In common philosophical usage, metaphysical realism is usually understood to mean only the view that “there is a w ...
... Putnam draws upon both James and Dewey in support of his rejection of metaphysical realism, but it should be noted that he defines the term in a highly controversial and burdensome way. In common philosophical usage, metaphysical realism is usually understood to mean only the view that “there is a w ...
Knowledge and the curriculum - Brunel University Research Archive
... can any longer just turn to philosophy – and more specifically to this subfield of philosophy called epistemology – for an answer, as the idea that philosophy can provide us with a deeper truth about what it means to know and what it means to have knowledge, has also reached its limits. Does that me ...
... can any longer just turn to philosophy – and more specifically to this subfield of philosophy called epistemology – for an answer, as the idea that philosophy can provide us with a deeper truth about what it means to know and what it means to have knowledge, has also reached its limits. Does that me ...
A Call for Inclusion in the Pragmatic Justification of Democracy
... universal and binding. Normativity arises entirely within the process of political deliberation, not from the approximation of norms to some pre-political ideal.2 This provides a clue to modern deliberative Kantian theory like John Rawls’ political liberalism. Rawls argues that we must refrain from ...
... universal and binding. Normativity arises entirely within the process of political deliberation, not from the approximation of norms to some pre-political ideal.2 This provides a clue to modern deliberative Kantian theory like John Rawls’ political liberalism. Rawls argues that we must refrain from ...
SI Hayakawa, Charles Sanders Peirce and the Scientific Method
... sought to explore the relationship between words, human thought, and practical action. Peirce’s original work in semiotics is by far the most thoroughgoing and sustained early attempt to give an account of signs and their interrelations. When assessing the truth or falsehood of an idea, Peirce held ...
... sought to explore the relationship between words, human thought, and practical action. Peirce’s original work in semiotics is by far the most thoroughgoing and sustained early attempt to give an account of signs and their interrelations. When assessing the truth or falsehood of an idea, Peirce held ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent issues and theories, sometimes only apparently more pressing. In Peirce’s case, which interests us here most, the concealing feature ...
... background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent issues and theories, sometimes only apparently more pressing. In Peirce’s case, which interests us here most, the concealing feature ...
Philosophy as Therapeutic Amelioration
... on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank is to thank for extricating this one from the rest. Just so the world of each of us, ho ...
... on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank is to thank for extricating this one from the rest. Just so the world of each of us, ho ...
Pragmatism, critical theory and democratic inclusion
... theoretical questions – such as the nature of freedom and equality – which Rorty would lump in with metaphysics, but is part and parcel of doing justice to what purportedly makes democracy valuable in the first place. All three lines are arguable at the “spectator” level, from a position some way up ...
... theoretical questions – such as the nature of freedom and equality – which Rorty would lump in with metaphysics, but is part and parcel of doing justice to what purportedly makes democracy valuable in the first place. All three lines are arguable at the “spectator” level, from a position some way up ...
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.