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Ontological Pragmatism
… I call the resulting position `ontological pragmatism' and argue for it over a variety of views in ontology and metaontology alike. In chapter 1, I characterise two opposing metaontological camps: the dominate metaontology --- what I call `mainstream ontology' --- and a deflationary …
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Pragmatism and Theology
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1916 Scanned via digitization-on-demand; committee signatures: J.R.S. [John R. Sampey], G.B.E. [George B. Eager], W.O.C. [William O. Carver], and C.S.G. [Charles Spurgeon Gardner]
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Pragmatism and its limitations
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: pages 77 and 81 appear to be missing from the thesis. Our determination is that this is the result of misnumbering by the author, and no substantive content is actually missing. If you are able to determine otherwise, please contact us.
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William James and pragmatism
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The Politics of Pragmatism
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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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Weaving feminism, pragmatism, and distance education
… representations at the intersection of feminism, pragmatism, and web based distance education. It is composed of three parts. The first part is the construction of a feminist-pragmatic theoretical and analytical tool, motivated by images of DE in commercial advertisements. These images include …
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The Pragmatism of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
… In his writing Butler developed a philosophy of pragmatism, based on a belief in evolutionary progress, common sense, and the idea of a divinity expressed through human conduct. Butler's scientific works lay the theoretical ground-work for his pragmatism. Evolution was purposive, self-initiated. …
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On Human Hating: Toward a Pragmatism of Hate
… the usefulness of hate is inconsistent with Pragmatism's pluralism. Through exploring the writings of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, we find hate to be a strong, problematic emotion. Central to Nietzsche's philosophical corpus, hate is something felt by weak people who seek to discharge this …
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Pragmatism and the Problem of Mind in Nature
… reconstruction of the philosophical tradition of pragmatism yields materials to resolve the philosophical problem of mind in nature. This is not the problem of consciousness, but rather the problem created by the facts that we human beings are both animals, products of nature in nature, and beings …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… 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 spirit 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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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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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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Illness Dwelling in Curreré: Fleshing through Education, Pragmatism, and Spirituality
… is to create a merging of illness, education, pragmatism and spirituality. The dissertation argues the pragmatist views of the lived experience propose a need for spiritual awareness when facing adversities such as illness. Currer and creation spirituality are woven together as a means of …
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Communication, John Dewey's Sacred Quest: The Pragmatic Church and Catholic Pragmatism
This work explores the possibility of constructing a metaphor in order to facilitate communication. The problem was addressed was denoted by Stephen Rockefeller, a misunderstanding of John Dewey’s religious philosophy by fundamentalists. The point of departure is one which Dewey himself suggested …
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