Tradition
Pragmatism
Overview
philosophical tradition
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But pragmatism is "used in a still wider sense, as meaning also a certain theory of truth" (p. 55); it is "a genetic theory of what is meant by truth" (p. 65). Truth means, as a matter of course, agreement, correspondence, of idea and fact (p. 198), but what do agreement, correspondence, mean?
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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All these, you see, are ANTI-INTELLECTUALIST tendencies. Against rationalism as a pretension and a method, pragmatism is fully armed and militant. But, at the outset, at least, it stands for no particular results. It has no dogmas, and no doctrines save its method.
William James, Pragmatism
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SECOND MISUNDERSTANDING: PRAGMATISM IS PRIMARILY AN APPEAL TO ACTION. The name 'pragmatism,' with its suggestions of action, has been an unfortunate choice, I have to admit, and has played into the hands of this mistake.
William James, The Meaning of Truth
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But I say that one of those necessities precisely is a belief in objective truth. Pragmatism is a matter of human needs and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.” You would say, if I understand you aright, that to fall back upon a supposed necessity of the “human mind” to believe in certain absolute truths, is to evade a proper demand for testing the human mind and all its…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
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The kind of way in which, as it seems to me, time ought not to enter into our theoretic philosophical thought, may be illustrated by the philosophy which has become associated with the idea of evolution, and which is exemplified by Nietzsche, pragmatism, and Bergson. This philosophy, on the basis of the development which has led from the lowest forms of life up to man, sees in _progress_ the fundamental law of the…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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Philosophers who discussed Pragmatism
- Sidney Hook
- Alexander Bain (philosopher)
- Jane Addams
- Charles W. Morris
- John Dewey
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Mannheim
- George Santayana
- Karl-Otto Apel
- Dharmakirti
- Zhuangzi (book)
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Richard Rorty
- Nagarjuna
- Intellectual
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Philip Kitcher
- Leonard Peikoff
- Thomas Reid
- George Herbert Mead
- Wilfrid Sellars
- C. I. Lewis
- Alfred North Whitehead
Related ideas
- Simon & Schuster
- Gilbert Ryle
- Empiricism
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Absolute idealism
- Instrumental and intrinsic value
- Foundationalism
- Robert L. Holmes
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophical realism
- Argumentation theory
- Henri Bergson
- Naturalized epistemology
- Sidney Hook
- Informal logic
- Alexander Bain (philosopher)
- Women's rights
- Immanuel Kant
- Problem solving
- John Searle
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Jane Addams
- Charles W. Morris
- Stephen Toulmin
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Charles W. Morris
- Conceptual framework
- Jane Addams
- Operations research
- Relationship between science and religion
- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Hull House
- New York Intellectuals
- Community of inquiry
- Patricia M. Shields
- The Life of Reason
- Anthony Weston
- Choice (publisher)
- Nicholas St. John Green
- The Philadelphia Negro
- Anti-intellectualism in American Life
- Definitions of education
- Glenn McGee
- Mary Parker Follett
- Administration & Society
- Bob Fischer (philosopher)
- Christian realism
- Universal pragmatics
- Vanderbilt University Press