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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"American pragmatism"”.
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The Transformation of Self: A Study of Classic American Pragmatism
… of self from the perspective of classic American pragmatism, of which I select James, Peirce, Mead, and Dewey as representative figures. The central concept of this study is the transformation of self. It is in this particular aspect, which I take also as a major theme of classic American …
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Knowledge As Conversation: Richard Rorty and the Legacy of American Pragmatism
… the place of philosopher Richard Rorty in the American pragmatist tradition. To locate him within this rich tradition, I outline the major tenets of classical pragmatism that constitute the core aims of the early pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. These three …
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Theoretical foundations of meta-aggregation: insights from Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism
… 1) to examine the Husserlian phenomenology and American pragmatism philosophical literature and to clarify the validity of the claims that the Joanna Briggs Institute’s meta-aggregation is founded on Husserlian transcendental phenomenology and American pragmatism; 2) to develop an explicit …
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Nietzsche's and Dewey's contextual challenge to value theory
… of post-Kantian European philosophy and American Pragmatism as it concentrates on the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and John Dewey. Nietzsche and Dewey are two of the most significant figures in post-Kantian value theory, and they cast a long shadow both within and beyond the philosophical …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… continuity between Ralph Waldo Emerson and American pragmatism has been one of the most prominent narratives constructed by scholars of American intellectual history in recent decades. This dissertation unsettles this selective interpretation of American thought rooted in the optimistic …
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Rethinking Legal Pragmatism: A Philosophical Approach
In "Rethinking Legal Pragmatism: A Philosophical Approach," I take issue with the position of Judge Richard A. Posner, a contemporary spokesperson for legal pragmatism and the law and economics movement. Posner holds that academic philosophy and philosophical pragmatism in particular has no role to …
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Microentrepreneur Identity in Appalachian Ohio: Enterprising Individuals with a Regional Flavor
… form of social constructionism informed by American pragmatism.</p><p>Using Southeastern Appalachian Ohio as the site of research, this study applies a grounded theory methodology in the analysis of textual data and participant interviews. Findings show that the construction of a …
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The Sacred Depths of Nature: An Ontology of the Possible in the Philosophy of Peirce and Heidegger
This dissertation carries out a study of the American pragmaticist C.S. Peirce and constructively applies his thought to a religious understanding of nature called "ecstatic naturalism," a philosophy developed by Robert S. Corrington that conjoins American pragmatism and Continental phenomenology. …
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UN INCONTRO TRA DARWINISMO E PRAGMATISMO: LA FILOSOFIA EVOLUZIONISTICA DI CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
… interpretation of natural beings was an American philosopher from Cambridge whose name was Chauncey Wright. Wright (1830-1875) was the well loved master of famous thinkers as William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, or Oliver Wendell Holmes at the “Metaphysical Club” in Cambridge, now …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… for a variety of biased reasons, classical American pragmatism has not taken a stand for either philosophical or methodological nonviolence. This unfortunate situation will, I hope, change with the argument in this dissertation. The issue of whether or not the social-epistemological value of …
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Richard Rorty's pragmatism : implications for argumentation theory.
This thesis argues that American pragmatism and contemporary argumentation theory have much in common. Nevertheless the similarities have not been exploited. Difficulties arise, however, in specifying pragmatism. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey--the major founders of …
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The Takeover by a Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature
… of a ‘literary culture’ plays in the work of the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty (1931-2007). While these notions are systematically significant in Rorty’s work, no thoroughgoing study of the literary aspect of his oeuvre exists. I undertake this study to understand why Rorty hoped …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… methodology. Thus, for this study, I adopted the pragmatism formulated by Charles Sanders Peirce, a method of evaluating concepts by their practical consequences. This pragmatism applied in two ways to the study of nonuse of information. First, because nonuse of information is a behavior, …