Pragmatism And Vagueness

Author : Claudine Tiercelin
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788869772344

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Pragmatism and Vagueness by Claudine Tiercelin Pdf

For most early pragmatists, including the founder C. S. Peirce and L. Wittgenstein, vagueness was a real and universal principle and not a mere defect of our knowledge or thought. This volume begins by exploring this pragmatist notion of vagueness and the way it was tied to their basic opposition to various kinds of reductionism and nominalism. It then develops towards an analysis of Peirce’s original and wide views on vagueness, as seen through the angles of logic, semiotics, epistemology and metaphysics. In the final part of this book, the reader is presented with a case for the contemporary relevance of such a realistic pragmaticism for the ongoing debate on semantic, epistemic and ontic vagueness.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262372176

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Pragmatism by John R. Shook Pdf

A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought. Pragmatism, America’s homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism’s origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal. With attention to the movement’s original thinkers—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead—as well as its contemporary proponents, he explains how pragmatism thinks about what is real, what can be known, and what minds are doing. And because of pragmatism’s far-reaching impact, Shook shows how its views on reality, truth, knowledge, and cognition coordinate with its approaches to agency, sociality, human nature, and personhood.

Author : F. Thomas Burke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253009548

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What Pragmatism Was by F. Thomas Burke Pdf

F. Thomas Burke examines the writings of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how the original "maxim of pragmatism" was understood differently by these two earliest pragmatists. Burke reconciles these differences by casting pragmatism as a philosophical stance that endorses distinctive conceptions of belief and meaning. In particular, a pragmatist conception of meaning should be understood as both inferentialist and operationalist in character. Burke unravels a complex early history of this philosophical tradition, discusses contemporary conceptions of pragmatism found in current US political discourse, and explores what this quintessentially American philosophy means today.

Author : Christopher Hookway
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199256587

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Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism by Christopher Hookway Pdf

This study of themes from the work of the American philosopher Charles Peirce examines his account of truth, discusses his claims on rationality, and concludes by reviewing his approach to religious belief and the role of pragmatism in his thought.

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486114217

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Pragmatism by William James Pdf

Noted psychologist and philosopher develops his own brand of pragmatism, based on theories of C. S. Peirce. Emphasis on "radical empiricism," versus the transcendental and rationalist tradition.

Author : Shaun Gallagher
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788869773815

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Performance/Art by Shaun Gallagher Pdf

Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting ways to make it more complex and dynamic. He draws on ideas from enactivist embodied cognition about how different types of movement can be meaningful and intelligent and can scaffold learning and problem solving. He also explicates the notion of an empathic mindfulness in performance and develops the idea of a double attunement to explain aesthetic experience in performance, distinguishing the latter from aesthetic experience in the observer/audience perspective.

Author : Russell B. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415288460

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Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman Pdf

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 : Richard Poirier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674679903

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Poetry and Pragmatism by Richard Poirier Pdf

Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before, Poirier shows that pragmatism had its start in Emerson, the great example to all his successors of how it is possible to redeem even as you set out to change the literature of the past. Poirier demonstrates that Emerson--and later William James--were essentially philosophers of language, and that it is language that embodies our cultural past, an inheritance to be struggled with, and transformed, before being handed on to future generations. He maintains that in Emersonian pragmatist writing, any loss--personal or cultural--gives way to a quest for what he calls "superfluousness," a kind of rhetorical excess by which powerfully creative individuals try to elude deprivation and stasis. In a wide-ranging meditation on what James called "the vague," Poirier extols the authentic voice of individualism, which, he argues, is tentative and casual rather than aggressive and dogmatic. The concluding chapters describe the possibilities for criticism created by this radically different understanding of reading and writing, which are nothing less than a reinvention of literary tradition itself. Poirier's discovery of this tradition illuminates the work of many of the most important figures in American philosophy and poetry. His reanimation of pragmatism also calls for a redirection of contemporary criticism, so that readers inside as well as outside the academy can begin to respond to poetic language as the source of meaning, not to meaning as the source of language.

Author : D. L. Murray
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781776583614

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Pragmatism by D. L. Murray Pdf

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 : Morris Dickstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822322455

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The Revival of Pragmatism by Morris Dickstein Pdf

DIVAn assessment, by a distinguished panel of experts, on the impact of pragmatism on contemporary thought./div

Author : Anna Boncompagni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137588470

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Wittgenstein and Pragmatism by Anna Boncompagni Pdf

This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism in Wittgenstein’s work On Certainty, through a comparison with the pragmatist tradition as expressed by its founding fathers Charles S. Peirce and William James. It also describes Wittgenstein’s first encounters with pragmatism in the 1930s and shows the relevance of Frank Ramsey in the development of his thought. Offering a balanced, critical and theoretical examination the author discusses issues such as doubt, certainty, common sense, forms of life, action and the pragmatic maxim. While highlighting the objective convergences and divergences between the two approaches, the volume makes links to ongoing debates on relativism, foundationalism, scepticism and objectivity. It will be of interest to anyone searching for new perspectives on Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

Author : John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldell, Jr.
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042021785

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Contemporary Pragmatism Issue 2 by John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldell, Jr. Pdf

Author : Nick Rumens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317182252

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American Pragmatism and Organization by Nick Rumens Pdf

Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion. Despite attracting attention and interest due to its conceptualization of theory, in terms of its practical consequences for improving the human condition, American pragmatism struggled to maintain its influence and suffered a hiatus until it experienced a renaissance within scholarly circles during the 1970s. While renewed interest in American pragmatism continues to grow, with some scholars distinguishing between classical, neo and new forms of pragmatism, it is only relatively recently that organization studies scholars have drawn upon American pragmatist philosophies for shedding new light on aspects of contemporary organizational life. This edited collection builds on this emergent literature in an engaging and scholarly manner. American Pragmatism and Organization is a ground-breaking collection and distinctive in its book-length treatment of American pragmatism as a relevant resource for analysing organisations. It draws together an international body of research focused on the interconnections and interplay between American pragmatism and organizational phenomena, explores the theoretical possibilities afforded by pragmatist thinking for understanding organization, and illuminates the practical advantages of doing so.

Author : William James
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664122261

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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James Pdf

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is a philosophical work by William James. James argues for the usefulness of practical, pragmatic approaches to problems rather than relying solely on theoretical or abstract ideas, suggesting that truth is constantly evolving and is determined by practical consequences rather than abstract reasoning.

Author : Russell B. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415288495

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Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman Pdf

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.