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Koopman, Colin. "“Experience, Language, and Behavior in Pragmatism: A Response to Voparil’s Reconstructing Pragmatism”." Contemporary Pragmatism 19, no. 4 (November 14, 2022): 417–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10057.

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Abstract Chris Voparil’s Reconstructing Pragmatism builds the best case to date that the neopragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty decisively and productively reshaped the lineage of pragmatist philosophy. In developing new directions for pragmatism, the book seeks to press past a number of recent debates. One such debate concerns the relative priority of experience and language as methodological starting points for pragmatist philosophy. While Voparil seeks to abandon this debate as outworn, this review argues that the issue of pragmatism’s methodological apparatus cannot be easily set aside. Only by addressing head-on the disadvantages of experience-first pragmatism and language-first pragmatism can a next iteration of pragmatist philosophy properly develop a third methodological option, tantalizingly noted by Voparil, of a practice-first pragmatism.

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Mudry, Léna. "Two Shapes of Pragmatism." KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy 35, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 151–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/krt-2021-0017.

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Abstract The ethics of belief is concerned with the question of what we should believe. According to evidentialism, what one should believe is determined by evidence only. Pragmatism claims that practical considerations too can be relevant. But pragmatism comes in two shapes. According to a more traditional version, practical considerations can provide practical reasons for or against belief. According to a new brand of pragmatism, pragmatic encroachment, practical considerations can affect positive epistemic status, such as epistemic rationality or knowledge. In the literature, the distinction between the two versions of pragmatism is not always made. If it is mentioned, it is quickly put aside. Sometimes, it is simply overlooked. As evidentialists face two distinct pragmatist challenges, they must get clearer on the distinction. But it matters for pragmatists too. As I see it, if one accepts one version of pragmatism, one should reject the other. This paper’s goals are to get clearer on the distinction and argue that both pragmatisms are independent. Accepting one version does not commit one to accept the other. Moreover, even if both pragmatisms tend to be neutral toward one another, I will argue that traditional pragmatism has good reasons to reject pragmatic encroachment and vice versa.

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Sullivan, Patrick. "Pragmatics and Pragmatism." Philosophy Today 35, no. 2 (1991): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday199135222.

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McHugh, Fergal. "Informality and Philosophy: A Response to Margolis." Contemporary Pragmatism 13, no. 1 (March 3, 2016): 122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01301007.

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Joseph Margolis argues that philosophy must acknowledge its radical informality. I provide a brief account of what Margolis means by informality and its consequences for the practice of a pragmatist philosophy. I discuss his criticism of Robert Brandom's analytic pragmatism on the grounds that it overemphasizes the potential gains of a formal approach. I highlight two concerns with Margolis’ insistence on informality recommending a reduced emphasis on the consequences of informality for the pragmatist philosopher.

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Binder, Marnie. "F.C.S. Schiller’s Pragmatist Philosophy of History." Contemporary Pragmatism 14, no. 4 (November 17, 2017): 387–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01404001.

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This article posits a pragmatist philosophy of history as exemplified in the work of British Philosopher F.C.S. Schiller (1864–1937). Part of this argument for a pragmatist philosophy of history resides on pragmatism’s key notion of “experience” being presented here as both related to human forces that are operant in history, and the particularly important “temporal” nature within the term, making it also in part “historical.” The goal is to more generally broaden scholarship in pragmatism as both containing important elements of a unique and coherent philosophy of history, and to bring Schiller closer into the academic circle of the history of pragmatist thought.

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KUKLICK, BRUCE. "WHO OWNS PRAGMATISM?" Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 2 (February 15, 2017): 565–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244317000026.

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In the opening years of the twentieth century a furious contest broke out over the meaning of pragmatism in professional philosophical circles in the United States. When William James introduced his idea to the learned public at the University of California in 1898, he credited Charles Peirce as its prime mover. After James's lecture became known, Peirce, an impossible man who did not know on which side his bread was buttered, re-christened his brainchild pragmaticism to make sure no one confused it with the foolishness of James. When John Dewey made his mark and critiques of pragmatism emerged, Dewey said that we should not argue about a brand name. Nonetheless, he still gave his own philosophy a new designation, dubbing it instrumentalism to avoid the charges unleashed against James. Were there, then, three styles of this speculative tendency? Arthur O. Lovejoy was an unrelenting opponent of the tendency. In 1908 he mocked these thinkers, and wrote in the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods a captivating and long-cited essay, “The Thirteen Pragmatisms.”

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Rooney, Phyllis. "Feminist-Pragmatist Revisionings of Reason, Knowledge, and Philosophy." Hypatia 8, no. 2 (1993): 15–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00089.x.

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By tracing a specific development through the approaches of Peirce, James, and Dewey I present a view of (classical) pragmatist epistemology that invites comparison with recent work in feminist epistemology. Important dimensions of pragmatism and feminism emerge from this critical dialectical relationship between them. Pragmatist reflections on the role of reason and philosophy in a changing world encourage us to see that philosophy's most creative and most responsible future must also be a feminist one.

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Binder, Marnie. "Ortega’s Pragmatist Perspectivism: On the Problem of Relativism." Journal of the Philosophy of History 13, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 384–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341434.

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Abstract Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset advanced a number of strong criticisms of American pragmatism, yet some pragmatist notions can also be detected in his own philosophy. Within Ortega’s pragmatist perspectivism one can locate the possibility of overcoming one of the principal perceived problems of pragmatism: namely, its tendency toward relativism. This paper focuses on the ways in which Ortega’s discussion of pragmatism pertains to history and historiography. Ortega’s position that history is written from a select number of perspectives is congenial to pragmatist pluralism. What is recorded and continues to thrive in the annals of history is, within a pragmatist framework, whatever continues to be interesting, relevant, useful, and meaningful because it makes a difference – from and for these perspectives. The more of these perspectives we study, the closer we approach what, on Ortega’s view, constitutes the “eternal truth which every period has lived,” because materials initially gathered and framed for pragmatic reasons can later on provide important opportunities for the reflexive analysis of historical knowledge.

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Piacente, Albert. "Pragmatism and the Importance of Truth." Contemporary Pragmatism 18, no. 3 (November 10, 2021): 223–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10013.

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Abstract This paper develops a position I call “apathetic pragmatism.” Apathetic pragmatism is a form of pragmatism that, through advocating “apathy” about the topic of truth, avoids the troubled identification of utility and truth found in classical and neo pragmatist theories of truth. Initially explored by Stephen Stich, I argue Stich’s case for apathetic pragmatism relies upon a theory of truth that causes vicious circularity. I then pursue a different route to apathetic pragmatism, one that sees apathetic pragmatism as a “paradigm shift” in relation to previous forms of pragmatism. It is a paradigm shift where pragmatism becomes a normative view concerning the questions that are necessary to ask, not an attempt to answer questions assumed necessary.

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Rossi, Paula. "Davidson and classical pragmatism." Areté 19, no. 1 (March 12, 2007): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/arete.200701.006.

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In this paper I wish to trace some connections between Donald Davidson's work (1917-2003) and two major representatives of the classical pragmatist movement: Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910). I will start with a basic characterization of classical pragmatism; then, I shall examine certain conceptions in Peirce's and James' pragmatism, in order to establish affinities with Davidson´s thought. Finally, and bearing in mind the previous con-nections, I will reflect briefly on the relevance –often unrecognized- of classical pragmatist ideas in the context of contemporary philosophi-cal discussions.

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Stango, Marco. "Can Thomism and Pragmatism Cooperate?" International Philosophical Quarterly 59, no. 4 (2019): 467–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq2019108139.

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The paper explores the possibility of philosophical cooperation between Thomism and American Pragmatism by resurrecting a largely forgotten debate between Wilmon Henry Sheldon and Jacques Maritain. The discussion focuses primarily on two topics: the compatibility between a substance ontology and a pragmatist-evolutionary ontology, and the compatibility between the scholastic and the pragmatist theories of truth. The paper claims that, if we bring Peirce’s version of pragmatism into the picture, cooperation is not only possible but likely to be fruitful.

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Schick, Stefan. "Which Comes First—Acting or Judging?" Idealistic Studies 52, no. 1 (2022): 45–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/idstudies2022328140.

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It is one of the crucial insights of pragmatism that our judging is itself a discursive practice. Our judgments are normatively determined performances for which we are responsible. Therefore, judgments are a species of action. For in both actions and judgments, we subject ourselves and others to justifiable norms. Since these insights can already be found in Hegel, Hegel is now often interpreted as a champion of pragmatism. Hegel’s logic is thereby mainly understood as the continuation of the Kantian project of transcendental philosophy. Based upon this pragmatist interpretation of Hegel, the paper reads F. H. Jacobi’s philosophy as an alternative pragmatism which is explicitly founded on our life praxis rather than our practice of judgment.

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Buch, Anders, and Bente Elkjaer. "PRAGMATISM AND PRACTICE THEORY: CONVERGENCES OR COLLISIONS." Caderno de Administração 27, no. 2 (May 10, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/cadadm.v27i2.52244.

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Proponents of the ‘practice turn’ in the social sciences rarely mention American pragmatism as a source of inspiration or refer to pragmatist philosophy. This strikes us as not only odd, but also a disadvantage since the pragmatist legacy has much to offer practice theory in the study of organizations. In this paper we want to spell out the theoretical similarities and divergences between practice theory and pragmatism to consider whether the two traditions can find common ground when gazing upon organization studies. We suggest that pragmatism should be included in the ‘tool-kit’ of practice-based studies of organizations.

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Assaf, Hewa Ahmed, and Yousif Sharif Saeed. "The Influence of the Pragmatism Philosophy on Linguistics." Journal of University of Raparin 9, no. 5 (December 29, 2022): 313–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.26750/vol(9).no(5).paper15.

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Pragmatism, a philosophical approach that originally appeared in the USA, places its evaluation of the validity of ideas on concepts such as "action" and "benefit". The pioneers of this philosophy believe that the basis of human thought and knowledge should be traced back to the notion of benefit. Language, according to John Dewey, is a tool for representing thought and meaning. Accordingly, the language must be loaded with utilitarian ideas and be a tool for creating a practical and realistic effect. That is, pragmatism was concerned with the purpose of language use and its significance at the expense of its form. It is worth mentioning that some other branches in linguistics were born from pragmatism, such as pragmatics, which deals with language in use, semiotics, applied linguistics, behaviorism, speech act theory, and discourse analysis. All of these branches of linguistics are concerned with the actual and utilitarian aspects of language and investigate language in terms of usage and conditions of use. This paper is an attempt to highlight how these linguistic fields are affected by the philosophy of pragmatism. The research consists of two sections. In the first section, the broad outlines of the philosophy of pragmatism are examined, and in the second section, the effect of the pragmatism philosophy on these fields of linguistics is examined.

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Kosarev, Andrey V. "On Periodization of Pragmatism." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 3 (2019): 297–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2019-17-3-297-311.

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Currently, there are a s number of positions on periodization and stages of the evolutionary development of pragmatism. In contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy there is no stable consensus as to who of the modern philosophers can be unambiguously ranked among pragmatists and neo-pragmatists, and also, from what point can one speak of the onset of the neo-pragmatist stage of development of this tradition. The lack of a unified approach, ultimately, makes it difficult to understand the content of pragmatism itself as a philosophical position due to the impossibility of linking to it any key figures and prominent researchers. The article discusses the main provisions and approaches to the periodization of the stages of the evolution of pragmatism, adopted in the scientific literature, and offers arguments in favor of some adjustments regarding the chronology of neo-pragmatism.

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Koopman, Colin. "Preface to Symposium on David Rondel’s Pragmatist Egalitarianism." Contemporary Pragmatism 16, no. 4 (November 21, 2019): 307–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01604001.

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David Rondel’s Pragmatism Egalitarianism offers valuable contributions to both contemporary pragmatist scholarship and contemporary political philosophy. The book was the focus of a discussion at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division meeting in April of 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia. That discussion forms the basis for the four essays gathered here: three critical responses from Susan Dieleman, Alexander Livingston, and Robert Talisse, as well as David Rondel’s reply to these critics. This brief prefatory essay summarizes the book and its contexts in contemporary pragmatism scholarship and political philosophy.

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Misak, Cheryl. "A Sensible Pragmatist Conception of Truth." Philosophy 97, no. 3 (July 2022): 275–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819121000310.

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AbstractThis essay traces the evolution of the pragmatist elements in Wiggins's distinctive view of truth and shows its connections to the founder of pragmatism, C.S. Peirce and one of Peirce's greatest successors, F.P. Ramsey. Wiggin's pragmatism, like that of Peirce and Ramsey, is a pragmatism that attempts to arrive at what Wiggins calls ‘a sensible subjectivism’ – an account of truth that respects both the human inventiveness and the objectivity that are each a part of our search for the truth

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Tashev, Andrey. "The two pragmatisms in the philosophy of Ivan Sarailiev." Sign Systems Studies 41, no. 4 (December 17, 2013): 433–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2013.41.4.04.

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This article focuses on the views held by the early Bulgarian representative and interpreter of pragmatism Ivan Sarailiev (1887–1969) on the two trends of this doctrine – the method for ascertaining meaning proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, and the theory of truth propounded by William James. Sarailiev applied and propagated the pragmatist ideas of the doctrine’s founders in Bulgaria in the 1920s, and is thus one of the first followers of Peirce in Europe and the very first in Eastern Europe. How deep was Sarailiev’s understanding of the two types of pragmatism? How did they shape his philosophy and what was their role? This article will try to address these questions as well as presenting the overall reception of pragmatism in Bulgaria in the Interwar period through Sarailiev who was its only serious proponent both at the time and long afterwards.

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Bergman, Mats. "The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication Studies." Nordicom Review 29, no. 2 (November 1, 2008): 132–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0182.

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Abstract This article examines two recent discussions of pragmatism in the field of communication and media studies: Chris Russill’s reconstruction of a pragmatist tradition based on the theories of William James and John Dewey, and Mike Sandbothe’s neopragmatist design for media philosophy. The main contention of the article is that Russill and Sandbothe advocate an unnecessarily narrow conception of pragmatist thought, one that tends to exclude the contribution of Charles S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism. After the presentation of Russill’s and Sandbothe’s positions, the article attempts to meet their explicit and implicit criticisms of Peircean pragmatism. More specifically, it is shown that Peirce does not advocate “transcendental universalism”. In conclusion, the article argues that his broad conception of experience is preferable to the radical empiricism of James, and that Peircean habit-realism is not only compatible with Dewey’s pragmatism, but may in fact provide the most fertile starting-point for pragmatist communication inquiry.

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Hollingsworth, Andrew. "Towards a Doctrinal Pragmaticism: Charles S. Peirce and the Nature of Doctrine." Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 64, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): 207–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2022-0011.

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Summary In this paper, I aim to retrieve insights from the philosophy of the polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, which he referred to as pragmaticism. What Peirce is perhaps best known as is being the father of pragmatism. In order to differentiate his project from other thinkers such as William James and John Dewey, who likewise referred to their projects as pragmatism, he renamed his pragmatism to pragmaticism.Peirce’s pragmaticism has much to offer theologians, especially concerning theological method. I demonstrate this claim by showing the usefulness of three of Peirce’s pragmaticist concepts. The first section of this paper briefly explicates the foundational concepts of pragmaticism, which are the pragmatic(ist) maxim, the semiotic nature of understanding, and fallibilism. The second section of this paper provides a sketch of the benefits these three concepts have for theological method.

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Livingston, Alexander. "Some Political Consequences of Pragmatism." Contemporary Pragmatism 16, no. 4 (December 4, 2019): 329–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01604004.

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The question of what political consequences, if any, follow from American pragmatism is nearly as old as pragmatism itself. David Rondel’s Pragmatist Egalitarianism breathes new life into this old debate. Rondel outlines a distinctively pluralistic and problem-oriented approach to political philosophy that claims to “reconcile and mediate” the false dichotomies and interminable debates marking philosophical discourses of egalitarian justice. This article identifies two competing visions of the political consequences of Rondel’s egalitarian brand of pragmatism: one Rortyan and deflationary, the other Deweyan and reconstructive. Rondel’s reconstructive argument shows how pragmatism’s democratic radicalism pushes beyond the liberal consensus of contemporary theories of justice and towards a more robust conception of democratic socialism, yet the full implications of this position are cut short by the book’s competing deflationary mode.

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Carter, Curtis L. "On the State of Dance Philosophy." Journal of Aesthetic Education 55, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 106–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.55.3.0106.

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Abstract What are Eric Mullis’s contributions to a pragmatist philosophy of dance? First, the work brings attention to aspects of dance in regional and religious contexts and to a selection of religious dance practices (Pentecostal and Quaker) not typically addressed in the literature of dance philosophy, thus adding to the current scope of dance studies. This book’s main strength with respect to pragmatist philosophies is its efforts to apply existing theories of pragmatism (James and Dewey, with commentary on Shusterman’s neopragmatist somaesthetics) to aspects of dance in a particular regional setting. This task is accomplished with three aspects of the research: ecological study of Pentecostal dance, pragmatism in a selection of its manifestations with connections to philosophies of dance, and performance. In the final chapter, the scope is broadened with summary references to alternative theories of dance philosophy and their interdisciplinary relations to dance studies using pragmatist philosophies. The remainder of this essay examines selection of past and current studies that inform the state of dance philosophy with the aim of gathering a broader perspective on the state of dance philosophy. While there is no established long-term tradition of dance philosophy, a generation of twentieth-century scholars—Cohen, Arnheim, Sparshott, Goodman, Van Camp, Banes, Carroll, McFee, Foster, and Fraleigh, among others—has advanced recent philosophical discussion of dance. Joining these are contemporary writers on philosophy of dance, such as Anna Pakes.

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Seigfried, Charlene Haddock. "Where Are All the Pragmatist Feminists?" Hypatia 6, no. 2 (1991): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb01390.x.

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Unlike our counterparts in Europe who have rewritten their specific cultural philosophical heritage, American feminists have not yet critically reappropriated our own philosophical tradition of classical American pragmatism. The neglect is especially puzzling, given that both feminism and pragmatism explicitly acknowledge the material or cultural specificity of supposedly abstract theorizing. In this article I suggest some reasons for the neglect, call for the rediscovery of women pragmatists, reflect on a feminine side of pragmatism, and point out some common features. The aim is to encourage the further development of a feminist revisioning of pragmatism and a pragmatist version of feminism.

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Long, Joseph W. "Who's a Pragmatist: Distinguishing Epistemic Pragmatism and Contextualism." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16, no. 1 (2002): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsp.2002.0004.

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Lipps, Hans, and Jason Hills. "Pragmatism and Existential Philosophy." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 18, no. 1 (January 26, 2010): 106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2010.174.

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Hans Lipps compares pragmatism (William James and John Dewey) existentialism (Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, and Martin Heidegger) in this 1936 article translated from French. He claims that they aim at the same goals, e.g., a return to lived experience and a rejection of the Cartesian legacy in philosophy. While summarizing the commonalities of each, he engages in a polemic against philosophy then that remains relevant now into the next century.

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Binder, Marnie. "Pragmatism for History and History for Pragmatism." Contemporary Pragmatism 17, no. 2-3 (July 31, 2020): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01701161.

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A pragmatist philosopher of history asks what practical difference it makes for this or that historical “fact” to be taken as “useful and meaningful,” and then consider that the principal motivation behind what is recorded, what continues to circulate, and to what extent, in the annals of historical texts. Part of the methodology of pragmatism is derived from history, since usefulness is attested over time. History and historiography are shaped, in part, by pragmatic interests. This discussion is indispensable for the era of digital humanities that is upon us, with all the new materials and interpretations that are to come as a result.

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Maddalena, Prof Giovanni. "Pragmatic Diction:Owen Barfield, the Inklings and Pragmatism." Journal of Inklings Studies 2, no. 2 (October 2012): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2012.2.2.5.

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Owen Barfield (1898-1997) has been a very eclectic writer: poet, novelist, and philosopher. Though almost unknown to philosophy scholars, his thought has been very influential on the work of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and it is worth being studied, understood, and used in connection with pragmatism. His philosophy amounts to a strong metaphysical realism that can parallel Peirce’s view of scholastic realism and, more generally, the pragmatist attitude toward a comprehension of reality based on continuity. Moreover, Barfield sustains a view of knowledge as ‘participation’ that is very close to Peirce’s understanding of knowledge as representation. Finally, he proposes a form of ‘synthetic’ reasoning that goes the same direction as many classical pragmatists’ attempts. Therefore, the threefold philosophical aim of this paper is (1) to introduce Owen Barfield’s main theories, (2) to show the parallel between Barfield’s and pragmatists’, and especially Peirce’s tenets, and (3) to show how pragmatism and Barfield’s theory can be reciprocally useful Men do not invent those mysterious relationsbetween separate external objects,and between objects and feelings or ideas,which it is the function of poetry to reveal.These relations exist independently, not indeed of Thoughtbut of any individual thinker. (Poetic Diction, 79)

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Shusterman, Richard. "Pragmatism and the Pluralism of Paths: Reflections on Voparil’s Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists." Contemporary Pragmatism 19, no. 4 (November 14, 2022): 391–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10054.

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Abstract After noting Rorty’s rhetorical use of binary oppositions, which belies important continuities (and which is even reflected in the problem of radically opposing classical pragmatism to neopragmatism), I question the idea that progress in pragmatism must go through engagement with Rorty. I do so by arguing that Rorty failed to treat or outright rejected some important philosophical issues. I consequently challenge the famous model for pragmatist pluralism: the metaphor of a single hotel corridor opening to a plurality of rooms with different people doing or believing different things. My paper also makes a case for the central importance of the aesthetic in Rorty’s philosophy despite his avowed rejection of aesthetics.

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Livingston, Alexander. "Pragmatism, Practice and the Politics of Critique." Contemporary Pragmatism 14, no. 2 (June 11, 2017): 212–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01402006.

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Colin Koopman’s Pragmatism as Transition offers an argumentative retelling of the history of American pragmatism in terms of the tradition’s preoccupation with time. Taking time seriously offers a venue for reorienting pragmatism today as a practice of cultural critique. This article examines the political implications third wave pragmatism’s conceptualization of time, practice, and critique. I argue that Koopman’s book opens up possible lines of inquiry into historical practices of critique from William James to James Baldwin that, when followed through to their conclusion, trouble some of the book’s political conclusions. Taking time and practice seriously, as transitionalism invites pragmatists to do, demands pluralizing critique in a way that puts pressure on familiar pragmatist convictions concerning liberalism, progress, and American exceptionalism.

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Pavlis, Dimitris, and John Gkiosos. "John Dewey, From Philosophy of Pragmatism to Progressive Education." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 9 (September 21, 2017): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i9.1257.

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<p>The reason for this publication has been our interest in educational issues on the one hand, and, on the other, in the philosophy of education of J. Dewey. This resulted in further approaching the philosophy of Pragmatism and considering its influence on J. Dewey’s philosophy of education. At the same time, we have sought the influences on his work from Aristotelian thought. In this direction, we show that the American philosopher considered the philosophy of pragmatism as applicable to a democratic education, which is also considered to be moral education.</p>

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Plotica, Luke Philip. "A Different Legal Conservatism." Contemporary Pragmatism 15, no. 4 (December 3, 2018): 515–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01501124.

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In Conservatism and Pragmatism, Seth Vannatta posits and explores several major conceptual and practical affinities between classical (especially Peircean) pragmatism and conservatism. Characterizing both as essentially methods rather than ideologies, he argues that the two ought to be understood as mutually supportive and corrective, and that they conjointly supply an especially robust set of intellectual resources relevant to contemporary moral, political, and legal concerns. This essay critically examines Vannatta’s marriage of conservatism and pragmatism in the realm of legal theory. It argues that while Vannatta’s work provides a rigorous pragmatist alternative to the familiar legal formalism adopted by many American conservatives, its foundations may be narrower than Vannatta appreciates and the resulting theory may have little necessary connection to the dispositional, methodological conservatism upon which it is purportedly based.

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Kidder, William. "Resisting Empathy Bias with Pragmatist Ethics." Contemporary Pragmatism 16, no. 1 (February 22, 2019): 65–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-0161126.

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The paper employs a pragmatist perspective on ethics to address the problem of empathy bias, an empirically documented phenomenon in which one’s ability to empathize with another is diminished simply because of that other’s membership in a perceived out-group. I first argue that the philosophical commitments that I take to be distinctive of pragmatism, specifically fallibilism, anti-absolutism, and democracy, require proactive empathetic engagement as a central component of moral inquiry. While this may initially seem to leave pragmatism vulnerable to concerns about empathy bias, I argue that the pragmatist is uniquely equipped to provide a particular sort of response to the problem: a response that does not jettison empathy from moral judgment, but rather seeks to utilize awareness of bias to appropriately correct empathetic engagement when addressing moral problems.

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Reck, Andrew J. "Pragmatism." International Studies in Philosophy 26, no. 1 (1994): 128–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199426153.

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Tejera, V. "Pragmatism." International Studies in Philosophy 31, no. 4 (1999): 124–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199931487.

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Hamad, Hema Niazi. "The Pragmatism of US Foreign Policy in the Obama and Trump Administrations." Journal of University of Raparin 8, no. 3 (September 29, 2021): 580–617. http://dx.doi.org/10.26750/vol(8).no(3).paper27.

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This researched has tried to analyze the philosophy of pragmatics and its development as well as applying it on the level of America’s foreign policy in the cabinet of both American Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump in a comparative way to analyze and investigate it. The philosophy of Pragmatics in the center of American policy had an important position in the formulation of foreign policies and decisions and its application between Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s administration, was embodied in different forms and mechanisms which understanding this political perspective and direction is helpful to increase an understanding about formulation and application of American foreign policy. It has been tried to answer the main question of the research within the context of this research, which is how did the main and clear difference of getting benefit from pragmatism between both Obama and Trump’s administration has reflected in the American foreign policy? In the research, it was hypothesized that pragmatism was generally used in American foreign policy to protect America’s living interests and applying pragmatism between each Obama and Trump’s administration and how it is reflected in American foreign policy. This research has reached the conclusion that pragmatism in the era of Barak Obama’s administration has embodied itself in the form of a clever and hidden soft Power that has not ignored actors and other parties in the international arena despite the desire to protect American interests. But in Donald Trump’s era, pragmatism has applied itself in the form of hard, obvious pragmatism, economic, and political interests of America, which was the main desire to protect America’s interests.

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Nye, Hillary. "Staying Busy While Doing Nothing? Dworkin’s Complicated Relationship with Pragmatism." Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 29, no. 1 (February 2016): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2016.3.

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Ronald Dworkin was an outspoken critic of pragmatism, and engaged in extensive and at times virulent disagreements with Richard Posner and Richard Rorty. Yet, I argue here, that Dworkin himself had a number of deeply pragmatist commitments. I examine how we can square these two aspects of Dworkin’s thought. I suggest that part of the answer lies in seeing that there are different strands of pragmatism, and that Dworkin falls on the more objective, Peircean side of the divide, while Rorty and Posner belong more in the skeptical, Jamesian camp. But even with this distinction in mind, we should note the substantial overlap between the views of Dworkin and his pragmatist interlocutors—in particular, their anti-archimedeanism and their rejection of metaphysics. Attentiveness to this shared perspective is helpful in illuminating Dworkin’s disagreements with legal positivists. The more foundational divide, I argue, is between analytic legal philosophers who aim to provide an account of the metaphysics of law, and those, like Dworkin and the pragmatists, who reject such a project. I conclude by discussing the implications of Dworkin’s pragmatism for legal philosophy. I argue that it may lead to what some have recently called ‘eliminativism’, and engage with some new and prominent work on this current topic in legal philosophy.

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Sheehey, Bonnie. "To Bear the Past as a Living Wound: William James and the Philosophy of History." Journal of the Philosophy of History 13, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 325–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341431.

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Abstract Philosophers generally recognize pragmatism as a philosophy of progress. For many commentators, pragmatism is linked to a notion of historical progress through its embrace of meliorism – a forward-looking philosophy that places hope in the future possibility of improvement. This paper calls pragmatism’s progressivism into question by outlining an alternative account of meliorism in the work of William James. Drawing on his ethical writings from the 1870s and 1880s, I argue that James’s concept of hope does not imply an embrace of historical progress, but remains detached from such a notion precisely insofar as it relies on a non-progressive temporality that encourages a rethinking of historical change. This form of hope is significant, I suggest, for the work of conceptualizing a non-progressive pragmatist approach to history and historiography.

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Sim, May. "American Pragmatism and Chinese Philosophy." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 36, no. 1 (February 19, 2009): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-03601002.

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Misak, Cheryl. "Rorty, Pragmatism, and Analytic Philosophy." Humanities 2, no. 3 (July 10, 2013): 369–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h2030369.

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Samuelsson, Lars. "Environmental Pragmatism and Environmental Philosophy." Environmental Ethics 32, no. 4 (2010): 405–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics201032443.

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Sergienko, Andrew C. "Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy." Teaching Philosophy 25, no. 4 (2002): 378–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/teachphil200225449.

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ROGERS, DONALD. "PRAGMATISM; THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMERICA." Educational Theory 9, no. 4 (April 2, 2007): 207–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.1959.tb01267.x.

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Simanjuntak, Ramses, Bakhoh Jatmiko, Anthoneta Ratu Pa, Hadi Siswoyo, and Albert Yusuf Langke. "Akomodasi Filsafat Pragmatisme dalam Pendidikan Agama Kristen untuk Menjawab Tantangan Pembelajaran di Era Digital." Angelion: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen 2, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.38189/jan.v2i2.200.

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The spirit of society 5.0 era demands the mastery and utilization of technology along with digital literation in every area of life. This development and challenges also occur in the education sector. A similar challenge is wrestled by Christian Education (CE) to be relevant knowledge within this era. CE must improve itself amid limitations within it. What innovations can be made to make CE relevant and fit to answer the needs of this digital era? This research aims to integrate positive contributions of pragmatism education philosophy toward CE in answering the needs of this era. The pragmatism thinking emphasizes practice and relevant learning outcomes as well as applicative skills. CE needs this utility in the learning process within this pragmatic era. This research applied a qualitative descriptive method with a literature research approach. The founding of this research is a proposal of accommodation of pragmatism philosophy toward CE using project based learning, collaborative learning, and creative problem solving learning approach.Era digital merupakan perkembangan peradaban yang tidak mungkin dihindari. Perkembangan teknologi dan digitalisasi berbasis internet telah memberikan kontribusi signifikan di dalam dunia pendidikan. Sebagaimana semangat society 5.0 yang menekankan kegunaan teknologi dan keilmuan bagi kebaikan manusia, dunia pendidikan secara khusus dalam Pendidikan Agama Kristen (PAK) harus ikut berbenah diri ditengah keterbatasan dan ketertinggalan yang dihadapi. Inovasi apa yang dapat dilakukan guna membuat keilmuan ini tetap releven dan menjawab kebutuhan di era digital ini? Pemikiran pragmatisme yang menekankan pada capaian pembelajaran yang praktis, relevan, dan berorientasi pada keterampilan aplikatif (utilitas) adalah hal yang diperlukan di dalam konteks PAK di dalam proses pembelajaran di era pragmatis ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif, dan jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kepustakaan dengan mengumpulkan data atau karya tulis ilmiah yang berkaitan dengan obyek penelitian atau pengumulan data yang bersifat kepustakaan. Kajian di dalam penelitian ini mengusulkan akomodasi filsafat pragmatism di dalam PAK dengan pendekatan pembelajaran yang berupa project based learning, collaborative learning, dan creative problem solving.

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Ulman, J. D. "RADICAL BEHAVIORISM VERSUS PRAGMATISM." Reflexio 12, no. 1 (2019): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2658-4506-2019-12-1-5-29.

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Some behaviorists consider positivism to be an obsolete scientific philosophy and advocate for pragmatism or a tenet thereof, contextualism, as the appropriate philosophical world view for the study of behavior. I argue that pragmatism is just as flawed as positivism and for essentially the same reason: they both stem from the same source – British empiricism. I distinguish between empirical and empiricism, the former, the inductive experimental approach put forth by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) and exemplified in the work of B. F. Skinner; the latter, a problematic epistemology founded by John Locke (1632–1708) leading to ambiguity and confusion about the connection between sensation and material reality, and eventually to the proliferation of mentalistic/cognitive constructs that appear in the behavioral literature today. I also examine the ambivalent role of Ernst Mach’s philosophy of science, one that strongly influenced such notable scientists as Einstein and Skinner but also had the retrograde effect of establishing positivism as a school of philosophy. Finally, I argue that the term radical behaviorism should be replaced with behavioral materialism as the designation for the scientific philosophy underlying behaviorology, a philosophy that is aligned with scientific materialism, not with pragmatism or contextualism.

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Margolis, Joseph. "Pragmatism Regained." Metaphilosophy 52, no. 1 (January 2021): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/meta.12474.

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Ochs, Peter. "Scriptural Pragmatism." International Philosophical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1986): 131–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq19862624.

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Colapietro, Vincent. "Speculative Pragmatism." International Philosophical Quarterly 30, no. 3 (1990): 373–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq199030330.

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Smith, John E. "Radical Pragmatism." International Philosophical Quarterly 41, no. 1 (2001): 99–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq200141165.

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Levine. "Brandom's Pragmatism." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48, no. 2 (2012): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.48.2.125.

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Robert B. Talisse. "Pragmatism Deflated." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54, no. 3 (2018): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.54.3.08.

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