functionalism

pragmatism

structuralism

William James

is a theory of truth as well as a theory of meaning.

is nothing but a new name for some old ways of thinking.

pragmatism is nothing but A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking.

is a philosophical outlook, not a logical principle [as it is for Peirce].

Peirce sees pragmatism as a logical principle. The maxim is a tool of analysis designed to make our concepts clear and logically precise. For James, pragmatism is a philosophical outlook.

is a method of ascertaining the meanings of hard words and of abstract concepts.

Peirce defines pragmatism as a 'method of ascertaining the meanings of hard words and of abstract concepts.'

is the belief that there is no one way to direct, or criticize, or underwrite, the course of inquiry.

Such philosophers, Rorty argued, are pragmatist, whether or not they see themselves working in the tradition of Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, or George Herbert Mead. On this understanding, a pragmatist is someone who holds three beliefs: first, that 'there is no wholesale, epistemological way to direct, or criticize, or underwrite, the course of inquiry'... second, that 'there is no metaphysical difference between facts and values, nor any methodological difference between morality and science'... and third, that 'there are no constraints on inquiry save conversational ones.' It is therefore the pragmatist who, with Harold Bloom, 'reminds us that a new and useful vocabulary is just that, not a sudden unmediated vision of things as they are,' and the pragmatist who seeks not to ground her or his beliefs transcendentally but who 'knows no better way to explain his convictions than to remind his interlocutor of the position they both are in, the contingent starting points they both share, the floating, ungrounded conversations of which they are both members.' ' (net)

is the notion that we live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

says: Just make invidious comparisons between the actual present and a possible, if inchoate, future.

The import of Dewey's pragmatism for movements such as feminism can be seen if we paraphrase Dewey as follows: do not charge a current social practice or a currently spoken language with being unfaithful to reality, with getting things wrong. Do not criticize it as a result of ideology or prejudice, where these are tacitly contrasted with your own employment of a truth-tracking faculty called 'reason' or a neutral method called 'disinterested observation.' Do not even criticize it as 'unjust' if 'unjust' is supposed to mean more than 'sometimes incoherent even on its own terms.' Instead of appealing from the transitory current appearances to the permanent reality, appeal to a still only dimly imagined future practice. Drop the appeal to neutral criteria, and the claim that something large like Nature or Reason or History or the Moral Law is on the side of the oppressed. Instead, just make invidious comparisons between the actual present and a possible, if inchoate, future.

neopragmatism

pragmaticism

prophetic pragmatism

transcendental pragmatism

Addams, Jane

Apel, Karl-Otto

Brandom, Robert

Dewey, John

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Follett, Mary Parker

Goodman, Nelson

Habermas, Jurgen

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hook, Sidney

James, William

Lewis, C. I.

Mead, George Herbert

Papini, Giovanni

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Quine, W.V.O.

Ramsey, Frank P.

Rescher, Nicholas

Rorty, Richard

Santayana, George

West, Cornel

Wright, Chauncey

Royce, Josiah

Russell, Bertrand

Kant, Immanuel

Angela Merkel

functionality

ironist

pure experience

radical empiricism

second-class method

end of ideology

American idealism

impractical

inexpedience

inexpedient

morals in politics

noble ideal

pedantry

political ideology

theoreticism

dealism

good enough ethnography

necessary evil

Dewey

ends and means

expedience

external questions

half measure

internal realism

knowledge in the real

lesser of two evils

liberal irony

middle-of-the-roader

mirror of nature

moderate

moderate republican

Obamaism

pragmatic theory of observation

romantic polytheism

tactical humanism

transactionalism

antifoundationalist theory hope

effectual truth

expedient

flexible absolutism

non-representational theory

opportunism

philosophy of practical experience

practical

practical metaphysics

pragmatist

ready-at-hand

Realpolitik

revolt against idealism

fallibilism

third way

absurdism

aesthetics

analytic philosophy

anarchism

Ancient Greek Thought

anthropological philosophy

buddhist philosophy

classical liberalism

conservatism

continental philosophy

conversational philosophy

critical philosophy

critical theory

deconstruction

design for living

ecosophy

Eleatic school

emanationism

empiricism

epistemology

ethics

existentialism

first philosophy

gay science

geophilosophy

hedonism

hermeneutic circle

hermeneutics

idealism

kogaku

liberalism

logic

logical positivism

marxism

materialism

metaphysics

minimal representationalism

modern philosophy

naturalism

neo-Kantianism

neoconservatism

neoliberalism

nihilism

nomadology

nominalism

object-oriented philosophy

objectivism

Charles Sanders Peirce

John Dewey

neo kantianism

realist

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

pragmatism, n.All

pragmatism