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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Philosophical pragmatism"”.
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… have little to report on the influences of pragmatism as developed by philosophers such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. This dissertation contributes to the literature of the history of public administration by documenting this “slighting” and assessing its …
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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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John Dewey's Theory of Aesthetic Experience and the Confluence of Art and Science
… The topic is discussed from the viewpoint of philosophical naturalism and in the specific framework of John Dewey’s philosophical pragmatism. In this context, the evolutionary and organic underpinnings of life are seen as giving rise to all forms of human aspiration, activity, and experience. …
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The Autonomy of Jurisprudence Vindicated: Truth, Necessity, and Conceptual Analysis
… of analytical jurisprudence as a distinctly philosophical enterprise: first, it explains why analytical jurisprudence is a semantic project but not a definitional one; secondly, it clarifies how the semantic project of conceptual analysis can be both descriptive and evaluative, and thirdly, …