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Author : John H. Stromberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pragmatism Refuted written by John H. Stromberg and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hoopes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801435003
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Community Denied written by James Hoopes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did modern American social thought take a wrong turn when it followed John Dewey and William James? In this searching history of early twentieth-century political theory, James Hoopes suggests that, contrary to conventional wisdom, these pragmatic philosophers did not provide the basis for a socially-minded political theory. Dewey and James did not provide intellectual safeguards against the amoral acceptance of realpolitik and managerial elitism that has given liberalism a bad name. Hoopes finds a more substantial basis for liberal political theory in the communitarian-based pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. Had modern social thought been influenced by Peirce, argues Hoopes, society could be seen as a set of interpretive relationships rather than a collection of discrete interests to be managed from the top down by elitist experts. Hoopes traces the influence of James and Dewey in the thought of Walter Lippman, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Mary Parker Follett. He concludes with a critical examination of contemporary thinkers, most notably Richard Rorty, who believe that James and Dewey offered the most socially useful philosophy within the pragmatic tradition. Combining philosophy, political theory, history, and close textual analysis in original ways, Community Denied offers a bold departure from previous studies of the subject and demonstrates the damage done to liberalism by reliance on a philosophy with no way of truly conceptualizing community.
Author : Robert B. Talisse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441103139
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Robert B. Talisse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy the insights and arguments of great American philosophers such as C.S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey. But it has also led to the use of the term 'pragmatism' in a huge variety of contexts, such that students and readers can find this fascinating subject confusing. Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed seeks to dispel some of the ambiguity surrounding the term 'pragmatism'. The book offers a clear and thorough account of this important philosophical movement. Thematically structured, it lays out the historical development and surveys the key thinkers. Crucially, it concentrates on the ways in which pragmatists, both contemporary and historical, have attempted to address some of the most important problems in philosophy. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to have a sound understanding of pragmatism, the book serves as an ideal companion to study of this most important and influential of movements.
Author : Addison Webster Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism and Its Critics written by Addison Webster Moore and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004495134
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism written by John R. Shook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to fill a large gap in American philosophy scholarship, this bibliography covers the first four decades of the pragmatic movement. It references most of the philosophical works by the twelve major figures of pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George H. Mead, F.C.S. Schiller, Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Vailati, Guiseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, A.W. Moore, John E. Boodin, and C.I. Lewis. It also includes writings of dozens of minor pragmatic writers, along with those by commentators and critics of pragmatism. It encompasses literature not only concerning pragmatism as an alliance of philosophical theories of meaning, inquiry, belief, knowledge, logic, truth, ontology, value, and morality, but also as an intellectual and cultural force impacting art, literature, education, the social and natural sciences, religion, and politics. This bibliography contains 2,794 main entries and more than 2,000 additional references, organized by year of publication. 2,101 of the references include annotation. Its international scope is focused on writings in English, French, German, and Italian, though many other languages are also represented. Peter H. Hare contributed the Guest Preface. The introduction contains an historical orientation to pragmatism and guides to recent studies of pragmatic figures. This work is extensively cross-referenced, and it has exhaustive and lengthy author and subject indexes.
Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728474
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Pragmatism written by Joseph Margolis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary philosophical debates in the United States "redefining pragmatism" has become the conventional way to flag significant philosophical contests and to launch large conceptual and programmatic changes. This book analyzes the contributions of such developments in light of the classic formulations of Charles S. Peirce and John Dewey and the interaction between pragmatism and analytic philosophy. American pragmatism was revived quite unexpectedly in the 1970s by Richard Rorty's philosophical heterodoxy and his running dispute with Hilary Putnam, who, like Rorty, is a professed Deweyan.Reinventing Pragmatism examines the force of the new pragmatisms, from the emergence of Rorty's and Putnam's basic disagreements of the 1970s until the turn of the century. Joseph Margolis considers the revival of a movement generally thought to have ended by the 1950s as both a surprise and a turn of great importance. The quarrel between Rorty and Putnam obliged American philosophers, and eventually Eurocentric philosophy as a whole, to reconsider the direction of American and European philosophy, for instance in terms of competing accounts of realism and naturalism.
Author : Russell B. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415288460
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism written by Russell B. Goodman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents key texts in and about pragmatism, from its origins in nineteenth century America to its contemporary revival as an international and multi-disciplinary phenomenon.
Author : James Pratt
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508910107
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book What Is Pragmatism? written by James Pratt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely satisfying book, that is, if the reader be not a pragmatist. It is seldom that one finds so much clear thinking and lucid exposition in so small a space. The author has endeavored first of all to understand rather than to refute pragmatism, yet the adherents of the new philosophy will be sure to say that he has not succeeded. To them the six chapters of the book will appear so many masses of tangled confusion. And it does not seem probable that continued discussion will lead to a perfect understanding, the difference being so largely temperamental. Pragmatism, we are told, is a temper of mind, an attitude, and so far as it is this, it cannot be changed by argumentation. It is generally recognized that philosophic attitudes and religious beliefs are ultimately a matter of constitutional, vital reaction, that as the sphinx looks out on the sand because she was cut out for that purpose, so we face the world in certain characteristic ways because 'it is our nature to.' Discussion is not valueless, however, partly for the reason that there are many mixed temperaments, and partly because pragmatism is more than an attitude; it "offers us a theory of meaning, a theory of truth, and a theory of knowledge." It is besides a general way of looking at things, and is trying to work out a theory of reality. The object of the first chapter of this book is to clearly state the pragmatic theory of meaning. This is not easy on account of the many concessions and qualifications that have been made. In general the doctrine is that meanings can be defined in terms of consequences in our future practical experience. It is then explained that this practical experience is either active or passive and that it includes theoretical consequences, but it is not clear whose experience is in question, that of the individual, that of all human beings, or that of all actual or possible rational or sentient beings. Furthermore, it is simply not a fact that the meaning of a proposition consists in its consequences. For not only do we know what we mean by the battle of marathon, but even in cases in which future consequences are to be expected, we know perfectly well what we mean adore they occur. Indeed, this is the very nature of meaning and to explain it away is to deny it altogether.... Again, it cannot be admitted that all ideas are plans of action; many of them are judgments of fact or existence, and in innumerable cases those who seek the truth in such matters, do not want to do anything with it; they want the knowledge for its own sake and have no further plan than to satisfy the desire to know. Pragmatism does not help in the select1on of our problems. In practice it merely results in putting under the ban all questions which are not to the taste of the individual who wields the criterion. It cannot decide what men ought to find interesting, and on its own principles it cannot taboo the investigation of any questions which men actually yearn to solve. -The Philosophical Review, Volume [1909]
Author : Chris Voparil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197605729
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Pragmatism written by Chris Voparil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The figure of Richard Rorty stands in complex relation to the tradition of American pragmatism. On the one hand, his intellectual creativity, lively prose, and bridge-building fueled the contemporary resurgence of pragmatism. On the other, his polemical claims and selective interpretations function as a negative, fixed pole against which thinkers of all stripes define themselves. Virtually all pragmatists on the contemporary scene, whether classical or "new," Deweyan, Jamesian, or Peircean, use Rorty as a foil to justify their positions. The resulting internecine quarrels and divisions threaten to thwart and fragment the tradition's creative potential. More caricatured than understood, the specter of Rorty is blocking the road of inquiry and future development of pragmatism. Reconstructing Pragmatism moves beyond the Rortyan impasse by providing what has been missing for decades: a constructive, non-polemical account of Rorty's relation to classical pragmatism. The first book-length treatment of Rorty's intellectual debt to the early pragmatists, it establishes his selective appropriations not as misunderstandings or distortions but as a sustained, intentional effort to reconstruct their thinking. Featuring chapters devoted to five key pragmatist thinkers - Peirce, James, Dewey, Royce, and Addams - the book draws on archival sources and the full scope of Rorty's writings to challenge prevailing misconceptions and caricatures. By illuminating the critical resources, still largely untapped, that Rorty offers for articulating classical pragmatism's ongoing relevance, the book reveals limitations in the received images of the classical pragmatists that predominate in current debates and opens up new modes of understanding pragmatism and why it matters today"--
Author : D. L. Murray
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776583612
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism written by D. L. Murray and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical school of thought known as pragmatism focuses on the mind and thoughts as tools for rational decision-making. This concept proved to be enormously influential throughout the twentieth century. In this concise volume, Murray presents a thorough discussion of pragmatism and the ideas underpinning it.
Author : Robert B. Talisse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838681
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatism Reader written by Robert B. Talisse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging anthology of key pragmatist writings The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a distinctively pragmatist approach to a core philosophical problem. The collection includes work by pragmatism's founders, Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, as well as seminal writings by mid-twentieth-century pragmatists such as Sidney Hook, C. I. Lewis, Nelson Goodman, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid Sellars, and W.V.O. Quine. This reader also includes the most important work in contemporary pragmatism by philosophers like Susan Haack, Cornel West, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, Cheryl Misak, and Robert Brandom. Each selection is a stand-alone piece—not an excerpt or book chapter—and each is presented fully unabridged. The Pragmatism Reader challenges the notion that pragmatism fell into a midcentury decline and was dormant until the advent of "neopragmatism" in the 1980s. This comprehensive anthology reveals a rich and highly influential tradition running unbroken through twentieth-century philosophy and continuing today. It shows how American pragmatist philosophers have contributed to leading philosophical debates about truth, meaning, knowledge, experience, belief, existence, justification, and freedom. Covers pragmatist philosophy from its origins to today Features key writings by the leading pragmatist thinkers Demonstrates the continuity and enduring influence of pragmatism Challenges prevailing notions about pragmatism Includes only stand-alone pieces, completely unabridged Reflects the full range of pragmatist themes, arguments, concerns, and commitments
Author : Wayne D. Smith
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434963209
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book American Pragmatism written by Wayne D. Smith and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226148793
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (487 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Pragmatism written by John Patrick Diggins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of our century, pragmatism has enjoyed a charmed life, holding the dominant point of view in American politics, law, education, and social thought in general. After suffering a brief eclipse in the post-World War II period, pragmatism has enjoyed a revival, especially in literary theory and such areas as poststructuralism and deconstruction. In this sweeping critique of pragmatism and neopragmatism, one of our leading intellectual historians traces the attempts of thinkers from William James to Richard Rorty to find a response to the crisis of modernism. John Patrick Diggins analyzes the limitations of pragmatism from a historical perspective and dares to ask whether America's one original contribution to the world of philosophy has actually fulfilled its promise. In the late nineteenth century, intellectuals felt themselves in the grips of a spiritual crisis. This confrontation with the "acids of modernity" eroded older faiths and led to a sense that life would continue in the awareness, of absences: knowledge without truth, power without authority, society without spirit, self without identity, politics without virtue, existence without purpose, history without meaning. In Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Weber faced a world in which God was "dead" and society was succumbing to structures of power and domination. In America, Henry Adams resigned from Harvard when he realized there were no truths to be taught and when he could only conclude: "Experience ceases to educate." To the American philosophers of pragmatism, it was experience that provided the basis on which new methods of knowing could replace older ideas of truth. Diggins examines how, in different ways, William James, Charles Peirce, John Dewey, George H. Mead, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., demonstrated that modernism posed no obstacle in fields such as science, education, religion, law, politics, and diplomacy. Diggins also examines the work of the neopragmatists Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty and their attempt to resolve the crisis of postmodernism. Using one author to interrogate another, Diggins brilliantly allows the ideas to speak to our conditions as well as theirs. Did the older philosophers succeed in fulfilling the promises of pragmatism? Can the neopragmatists write their way out of what they have thought themselves into? And does America need philosophers to tell us that we do not need foundational truths when the Founders already told us that the Constitution would be a "machine" that would depend more upon the "counterpoise" of power than on the claims of knowledge? Diggins addresses these and other essential questions in this magisterial account of twentieth-century intellectual life. It should be read by everyone concerned about the roots of postmodernism (and its links to pragmatism) and about the forms of thought and action available for confronting a world after postmodernism.
Author : Robert Schwartz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119052432
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Pragmatism written by Robert Schwartz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. It clarifies pragmatic ideas and arguments spelling out the significant implications they have for present-day philosophical controversies. Explores the work of the American Pragmatists, especially James and Dewey, on the issues of truth, reference, meaning, instrumentalism, essences, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. The only available publication to provide a detailed commentary on James's book, Pragmatism, while exploring the implications of the American Pragmatists' ideas and arguments for contemporary philosophical issues Challenges standard readings of the American Pragmatists' positions in a way that illuminates and questions the assumptions underlying current discussions of these topics. Coherently arranged by structuring the book around the themes discussed in each chapter of James's original work. Provides a new analysis and understanding of the pragmatic theory of truth and semantics.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791444085
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Realistic Pragmatism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers classical pragmatism from recent deconstructive interpretations.
Author : Ramon Vargas Maseda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317153960
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Deciphering Goffman written by Ramon Vargas Maseda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work. Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both pluralism and particularly of pragmatism, where not only Simmel but also James and Dewey played a pivotal role in his work, thus rooting Goffman’s thought in symbolic interactionism. With attention to two central theoretical principles underlying his work—the pertinence of studying social interaction as given and the need and warrant to study face-to-face interaction in its own right—the author presents a rigorous examination of Goffman’s own writings to uncover the clear and recognizable process of systematization that Goffman followed throughout. In this manner, the book reveals the structure of Goffman’s theory by way of mapping the main themes, topics, concepts, empirical referents, methodological principles and theoretical frameworks relevant to the structure of his thought. A fresh examination of the structure of Goffman’s work that sheds light on the core of his unique approach, this new study of one of the central figures of sociology constitutes an important contribution to scholarship in social theory and the history of sociology.
Author : John Thomas Driscoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea written by John Thomas Driscoll and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
