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    The American Pragmatists.Cheryl Misak - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the 1870s to the present day. She traces the connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy, and draws out the continuing influence of pragmatist ideas in the recent history of philosophy.
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    American pragmatism as a guide for professional ethical conduct for engineers.Gerald A. Emison - 2004 - Science and Engineering Ethics 10 (2):225-233.
    The ethical choices faced by engineers today are increasingly complex. Competing and conflicting ethical demands from clients, communities, employees, and personal objectives combine to suggest that engineers employ ethical approaches that are adaptive yet grounded in three concrete professional circumstances: first, that engineers apply unique professional skills in the service of a client, subject to protecting the public interest; second, that engineers advance the state of knowledge of their professional field through reflection, research, and sharing experience in journals and conferences, (...)
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    American pragmatism and communication research.David K. Perry (ed.) - 2001 - Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum.
    This monograph examines the past, present, and potential relationship between American pragmatism and communication research. The contributors provide a bridge between communication studies and philosophy, subjects often developed somewhat in isolation from each other. Addressing topics, such as qualitative and quantitative research, ethics, media research, and feminist studies, the chapters in this volume: *discuss how a pragmatic, Darwinian approach to inquiry has guided and might further guide communication research; *advocate a functional view of communication, based on Dewey's mature (...)
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    Classical American pragmatism: Practicing philosophy as experiencing life.Jacquelyn Kegley - 2014 - Human Affairs 24 (1):112-119.
    I argue that Classical American Pragmatists—Royce, James, Dewey, Perice, Addams, Du Bois, and Locke subscribed to this view and practiced philosophy by focusing on experience and directing a critical eye to major problems in living. Thus Royce and Dewey explored the nature of genuine community and its role in developing a flourishing individual life but also a public, democratic life. Royce and James engaged in a phenomenological analysis of human experience including religious experience developing a rich understanding of human (...)
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    Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary Vitality.Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman & Douglas R. Anderson (eds.) - 1999 - University of Illinois Press.
    This collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers - Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead - on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society. Pragmatism emerged as a characteristically American response to an inheritance of British empiricism. Presenting a radical reconception of the nature of experience, pragmatism represents a belief that ideas are not merely (...)
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    American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey.Edward C. Moore - 1961 - New York,: Columbia University Press.
    A discussion of American pragmatism through the writings of its three major advocates: Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Examines how each applied pragmatism to, respectively, the theory of reality, the notion of truth, and the concept of the good.
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  7. American pragmatism.Richard J. Bernstein - 1995 - In Herman J. Saatkamp (ed.), Rorty & pragmatism: the philosopher responds to his critics. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 54--55.
     
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    (1 other version)American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith by Robert J. Lacey (review).Daniel Morris - 2013 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 34 (3):292-295.
    Robert J. Lacey has reservations about both the philosophical roots and the institutional legacy of American participatory democracy. In his combination of political philosophy and intellectual history, Lacey explores several ideas that he takes to be central to participatory democracy in America. Although students of pragmatism may be unsatisfied with some of Lacey’s evaluative conclusions, this book looks at a well-worn topic with new eyes, and offers a fresh interpretation of democratic thought in America. The central event around (...)
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    American Pragmatism and the Global City: Engaging Saskia Sassen’s Work.Sharon M. Meagher - 2013 - The Pluralist 8 (3):83-89.
    A Dialogue between American pragmatists in the Deweyan tradition and Saskia Sassen is profitable in at least two ways. First, Sassen’s call for “analytic tactics” might be understood in terms of Dewey’s understanding of “soft method.” Second, Sassen is a model of the publicly engaged scholar, not only because she lives the work but also because she connects theory and empirical research in ways that are necessary if we are to follow the Deweyan call to philosophers to address social (...)
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    (1 other version)American Pragmatism.John J. McDermott - 1961 - International Philosophical Quarterly 1 (4):725-725.
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    American pragmatism and education.John Lawrence Childs - 1956 - New York,: Holt.
  12. Classical American Pragmatism, from a Contemporary Point of View.Sandra B. Rosenthal - 1993 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (3):462-467.
     
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    (1 other version)American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy.M. Gail Hamner - 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.
    Hamner seeks to discover what makes pragmatism uniquely American. She argues that the inextricably American character of pragmatism of such figures as C.S. Peirce and William James lies in its often understated affirmation of America as a uniquely religious country with a God-given mission and populated by God-fearing citizens.
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    Classical American Pragmatism as Anti-Scientism.Parysa Mostajir - forthcoming - Philosophy of Science 90 (5).
    Scientism has recently experienced a resurgence of interest in philosophy. One version of scientism often defended is ontological scientism—the view that any kind or property not mentioned in the theories of science has only a subordinate, secondary kind of reality. It is worth noting that a dominant tradition in the history of philosophy of science—classical American pragmatism—undertook decades of critical engagement with contemporaneous scientistic beliefs, many of which resemble those being debated at the present time. This anti-scientistic philosophy (...)
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    American pragmatism: an introduction.Albert R. Spencer - 2020 - Medford, Massachusetts: Polity.
    In this comprehensive introduction, Spencer presents a new story of the origins and development of American Pragmatism, from its emergence through the interaction of European and Indigenous American cultures to its contemporary status as a diverse, vibrant, and contested global philosophy. This is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students.
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    The American pragmatists.Milton Ridvas Konvitz - 1960 - New York,: Meridian Books. Edited by Gail Kennedy.
    Includes writings on pragmatism by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George Herbert Mead, Percy W. Bridgman, C. I. Lewis, Horace M. Kallen, Sidney Hook, and, especially, William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey.
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  17. American Pragmatism and the Vienna Circle: The Early Years.Thomas Uebel - 2015 - Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 3 (3).
    Discussions of the relation between pragmatism and logical empiricism tend to focus on the period when the logical empiricists found themselves in exile, mostly in the United States, and then attempt to gauge the actual extent of their convergence. My concern lies with the period before that and the question whether pragmatism had an earlier influence on the development of logical empiricism, especially on the thought of the former members of the “first” Vienna Circle. I argue for a (...)
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    American Pragmatism, Disability, and the Politics of Resilience in Mental Health Education.Sarah H. Woolwine & Justin Bell - 2018 - In David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 623-634.
    In this chapter, we critique a concept of resilience that has emerged from contemporary positive psychology and its application to health education. We argue that the present popularity of “resilience” as a strategy for managing mental health discourages educational institutions from providing students with the mental health services they need. Using the tools of American pragmatism, especially the work of John Dewey, we criticize the paradigm of resilience and identify several concrete reformulations of disability studies which would make (...)
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  19. From German Idealism to American Pragmatism – and Back.Robert Brandom - 2013 - In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Boston: de Gruyter. pp. 107-126.
    Developments over the past four decades have secured Immanuel Kant’s status as being for contemporary philosophers what the sea was for Swinburne: the great, gray mother of us all. And Kant mattered as much for the classical American pragmatists as he does for us today. But we look back at that sepia-toned age across an extended period during which Anglophone philosophy largely wrote Kant out of its canon. The founding ideology of Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore, articulating the rationale (...)
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    American Pragmatism.Douglas McDermid - 2019 - In John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 311–338.
    This chapter examines the work of pragmatism's two earliest exponents, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) and William James (1842–1910). Particular attention is paid to the latter's version of pragmatism: a liberal and irenic Lebensphilosophie which judged thoughts by their practical consequences, encouraged individuals to trust the deepest demands of their natures, emphasized the creative and purposive character of all human thought, and stressed the moral and intellectual necessity of tolerating rival points of view. Two defining features of James's outlook (...)
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  21. American Pragmatism and Education.John L. Childs - 1959 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 14 (2):212-213.
     
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  22. (1 other version)American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey. [REVIEW]E. F. A. - 1961 - Review of Metaphysics 14 (4):725-725.
    Each member of pragmatism's triumvirate is the subject of a separate study which sketches his intellectual biography, surveys his philosophical position, and takes account of the typical criticisms. The accounts are not subtle.--A. E. F.
     
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  23. American Pragmatism and the Humanist Tradition.Konstantin Kolenda - 1995 - In Robert Hollinger & David J. Depew (eds.), Pragmatism: from progressivism to postmodernism. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. pp. 238--255.
     
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    From German Idealism to American Pragmatism – and Back.Robert Brandom - 2013 - In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Boston: de Gruyter. pp. 107-126.
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    American Pragmatism.Nancy Frankenberry - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 141–150.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Charles Sanders Peirce William James John Dewey Contemporary Directions Works cited.
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    British empiricism and American pragmatism: new directions and neglected arguments.Robert J. Roth - 1993 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    This volume contributes to the remarkable resurgence in interest for American pragmatism and its proponents by focusing on the influence of British empiricism, ...
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    American Pragmatism and Feminism: Fresh Opportunities for Sociological Inquiry.Nick Rumens & Mihaela Kelemen - 2010 - Contemporary Pragmatism 7 (1):129-148.
    Despite its impact on public administration, policy development, education, philosophy and politics, American pragmatism has made a relatively small impression on the social sciences. In particular, American pragmatism has seldom influenced feminism, which is remarkable given the potentially striking affinities between these two disciplines. Drawing upon the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey and the work of feminists who support a pragmatist approach to the study of gender, this article discusses the chequered history of relations between the (...)
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    American pragmatism: A classroom application.John Ruhe - 2002 - In Leo V. Ryan, F. Byron Nahser & Wojciech Gasparski (eds.), Praxiology and pragmatism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. pp. 209.
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    Introduction: American pragmatism and chinese philosophy.May Sim - 2009 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (1):3-8.
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    American Pragmatism: Transference and Aufhebung.Thelma Z. Lavine - 1988 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (4):469 - 486.
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    The American Pragmatists, by Cheryl Misak, The Oxford History of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xvi + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-923120-1 hb £25. [REVIEW]Isaac Levi - 2014 - European Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1):e14-e17.
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    Putting american pragmatism to work in the classroom.John Ruhe & F. Byron Nahser - 2001 - Journal of Business Ethics 34 (3-4):317 - 330.
    The pragmatic inquiry process used in the Corporantes Pathfinder Notebook (CPN) enables students and others to discern their gifts, find purpose and direction in their lives, and seek a FIT between their values and various corporate cultures before making extensive commitments in their field of studies and their employment. Based on Peirce''s theory of Pragmatism the CPN fosters investigation, interpretation, and action resulting from reflected narratives written in response to a series of questions in the CPN. The CPN was (...)
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    Classical american pragmatism: A common world.Sandra B. Rosenthal - 1983 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 21 (1):67-77.
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  34. Classical American pragmatism: Key themes and phenomenological dimensions.S. B. Rosenthal - 1987 - In Robert S. Corrington, Carl Hausman & Thomas M. Seebohm (eds.), Pragmatism considers phenomenology. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. pp. 37--57.
     
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  35. American Pragmatism and Ultimate Reality and Meaning as Seen in Religion'.Robert J. Roth - 1993 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 16:141-48.
     
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  36. American pragmatism and ultimate reality and meaning as seen in religion, Peirce, Charles, S., James, William, and Dewey, John.Rj Roth - 1993 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 16 (1-2):120-127.
     
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    The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism.Steve Odin - 1996 - SUNY Press.
    The thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I-Thou relation," including a communication model of self as individual-society interaction. It is also shown for both traditions all aesthetic, moral, and religious values are a function of the social self arising through communicative interaction between the individual (...)
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    Grace de Laguna: American pragmatist.Cheryl Misak - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2):1-9.
    This paper explores the under-recognized Grace de Laguna’s relationship to the tradition of American pragmatism, the tradition that was dominant in her time and place and the emerging tradition of analytic philosophy. It argues that while de Laguna mounted some challenges to pragmatism, they do not hit their mark and while de Laguna at times distanced herself from pragmatism, she ought to be seen as part of that tradition, as well as part of the tradition of (...)
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    American Pragmatism: An Introduction by Albert R. Spencer (review). [REVIEW]I. I. I. Lee A. McBride - 2024 - The Pluralist 19 (1):108-112.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: American Pragmatism: An Introduction by Albert R. Spencer. Polity Press, 2020. Reviewed by: Lee A. McBride III -/- American Pragmatism: An Introduction is a judicious and stimulating read, comprising an introduction and five numbered chapters. The introduction orients the book, offering various ways of conceiving American Philosophy and American pragmatism. Spencer explains that it is difficult to discern the national and (...)
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    Zapatismo, Luis Villoro, and American Pragmatism on Democracy, Power, and Injustice.Gregory Fernando Pappas - 2017 - The Pluralist 12 (1):85-100.
    pragmatism has been appropriated and welcomed in Latin America because there is much prior practice and circumstance that makes for a good fit, and not simply because it was an external solution to local problems. In fact, many developments have already occurred in Latin America that, although not directly influenced by John Dewey, are better examples of his methods and ideas than what occurs north of the Rio Grande.1 Indeed, when Dewey was in Mexico, he was impressed with their (...)
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    The american pragmatists by Cheryl Misak.D. H. Mellor - 2014 - Analysis 74 (2):349-350.
  42. (1 other version)Engineering philosophy of science: American pragmatism and logical empiricism in the 1930s.Alan W. Richardson - 2002 - Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2002 (3):S36-S47.
    This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy's embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey's pragmatism. It places both movements within scientific philosophy and finds two key points on which they agreed: their revolutionary ambitions and their social engineering sensibility. The essay suggests that the disagreement over emotivism in ethics should be placed within the context of a larger issue on which the movements disagreed: demarcationism (...)
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    Confucianism and American Pragmatism.Mathew A. Foust - 2015 - Philosophy Compass 10 (6):369-378.
    One area of the East–West comparative philosophy that has received a good deal of attention in recent years is the relationship between Confucianism and American Pragmatism. Scholars engaging these traditions have argued that they are mutually elucidating and mutually reinforcing. Often, upon locating resonance between a Confucian philosopher and an American Pragmatist philosopher, scholars combine the conceptual resources of the two, developing a Confucian–Pragmatist hybrid concept or theory. Some critics have been skeptical of the alleged compatibility between (...)
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  44. British Empiricism and American Pragmatism.Robert J. Roth - 1994 - International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2):213-219.
    This volume traces the influence of the British Empiricists--John Locke and David Hume--upon the American pragmatists--Charles S Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. But there are significant differences between the two traditions so that it can be said that the pragmatists gave the classical empirical tradition new directions. Heretofore these lines of influence and divergence have been recognized but not sufficiently developed. This movement is illustrated in chapters on experience, necessary connection, personal identity, and moral, social, and political theory. (...)
     
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    Three Ideas from American Pragmatism Interpreted in Terms of Whitehead's Metaphysics.Benjamin Andrae - 2019 - Process Studies 48 (2):254-272.
    This article is an attempt to examine and clarify the truth theory of American pragmatism. Three central ideas of this truth theory will be considered in light of Whitehead's metaphysics: a rejection of the correspondence theory of truth, a defense of fallibilism, and a recognition of the temporality of truth.
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    American Pragmatism Reconsidered: William James’ Ecological Ethic.Robert C. Fuller - 1992 - Environmental Ethics 14 (2):159-176.
    In this paper, I argue that pragmatism, at least in its formulation by William James, squarely addresses the metaethical and normative issues at the heart of our present crisis in moral justification. James gives ethics an empirical foundation that permits the natural and social sciences a clear role in defining our obligation to the wider environment. Importantly, James’ pragmatism also addresses the psychological and cultural factors that help elicit our willingness to adopt an ethical posture toward life.
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  47. American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey.Edward C. Moore - 1961 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (2):273-273.
     
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    American Pragmatism: Peirce, James and Dewey. [REVIEW]Richard J. Bernstein - 1962 - Journal of Philosophy 59 (10):272-274.
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    John Rawls and American Pragmatism: Between Engagement and Avoidance.Daniele Botti - 2019 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Daniele Botti argues that John Rawls’s philosophy is importantly connected with classical American pragmatism and that Rawls’s intellectual trajectory did not take a “pragmatic turn” in the 1980s but possibly an “un-pragmatic” one. Both claims go against conventional wisdom, and Botti corroborates them with archival research.
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    American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey. By Edward C. Moore. New York: Columbia University Press. 1961, pp. xii, 285. $5.00. [REVIEW]W. M. Sibley - 1962 - Dialogue 1 (2):223-224.
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