Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense

Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense

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  • Author: Robert E. Innis
  • Publisher: Penn State Press
  • ISBN: 9780271045344
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation--the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of sense," Robert Innis studies the multiple ways in which they are rooted in and transform human perceptual structures in both their individual and social dimensions. The book foregrounds and is organized around the notion of "semiotic embodiment." Language and technics are viewed as "probes" upon which we rely, in which we are embodied, and that themselves embody and structure our primary modes of encountering the world. While making an important substantive contribution to present debates about the "biasing" of perception by language and technics, Innis also seeks to provide a methodological model of how complementary analytical resources from American pragmatist and various European traditions can be deployed fruitfully in the pursuit of new insights into the phenomenon of meaning-making.


Pragmatism

Pragmatism

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  • Author: Russell B. Goodman
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415909105
  • Category : Pragmatism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

First Published in 1996. This work presents material for understanding pragmatism's contemporary revival. The contributors consider philosophical issues ranging from the distinction between truth, knowledge and the meaning of literature to the practice of reading.


Pragmatism and Inquiry

Pragmatism and Inquiry

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  • Author: Isaac Levi
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199698139
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 271

This volume presents a series of essays on the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates. Isaac Levi draws upon the work of the American Pragmatists C. S. Peirce and John Dewey to investigate what justifies change in belief.


Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience

Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience

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  • Author: Steven Levine
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108422896
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.


Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

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  • Author: William James
  • Publisher: Good Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140

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.


Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

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  • Author: William James
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

"The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December 1906, and in January 1907 at Columbia University in New York"--Pref."First edition, June 1907. Reprinted July (twice), October 1907"--Verso of t.p. Includes index. The present dilemma in philosophy -- What pragmatism means -- Some metaphysical problems pragmatically considered -- The one and the many -- Pragmatism and common sense -- Pragmatism's conception of truth -- Pragmatism and humanism -- Pragmatism and religion.


Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy

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  • Author: Scott F. Aikin
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351811312
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that originates in the work of the "classical" pragmatisms of Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, uninterruptedly develops through the later 20th Century pragmatists (C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, Nelson Goodman, W. V. O. Quine), and continues through the present day. According to Aikin and Talisse, pragmatism is fundamentally a metaphilosophical proposal – a methodological suggestion for carrying inquiry forward amidst ongoing deep disagreement over the aims, limitations, and possibilities of philosophy. This conception of pragmatism not only runs contrary to the dominant self-understanding among cotemporary philosophers who identify with the classical pragmatists, it also holds important implications for pragmatist philosophy. In particular, Aikin and Talisse show that their version of pragmatism involves distinctive claims about epistemic justification, moral disagreement, democratic citizenship, and the conduct of inquiry. The chapters combine detailed engagements with the history and development of pragmatism with original argumentation aimed at a philosophical audience beyond pragmatism.


Cambridge Pragmatism

Cambridge Pragmatism

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  • Author: Cheryl Misak
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0191020044
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.


Wittgenstein and Pragmatism

Wittgenstein and Pragmatism

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  • Author: Anna Boncompagni
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137588470
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

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.


Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

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  • Author: Martin Savransky
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 1478021438
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110

In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a “pluralistic realism”—an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality. By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.