George Herbert Mead is the fourth major figure in Classical American Pragmatism. Mead studied philosophy at Harvard while William James chaired the department. He taught with John Dewey at the University of Michigan before they both left there to teach at the University of Chicago. Mead is known more as a sociologist than a philosopher [...]
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Mead, Mind and World
Posted by Jeff Carreira on September 16, 2011
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2011/09/16/mead-mind-and-world/
Evolution and Andrew Cohen
Evolutionary Enlightenment is the spiritual teaching that has been developed by Andrew Cohen over more than two decades. That teaching has grown to include an evolutionary cosmology that very closely resembles that held collectively by the American Pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey. Did Andrew Cohen get his evolutionary view from these [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on February 2, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/02/02/evolution-and-andrew-cohen/
The Birth of Integral Theory
In this blog I have attempted to create a snapshot of the American philosophy of Pragmatism. In doing this I have emphasized how ideas are developed as part of, and in response to, larger cultural currents. Pragmatism emerged and developed during the height of what is known as the modern era which began with the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 29, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/01/29/the-birth-of-integral-theory/
Integral Theory, Evolutionary Enlightenment and American Philosophy
I am helping to put together an internet based seminar featuring Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber and I thought that I would write a blog post explaining how my interest in the work of these men led me to start this blog. I began to get excited about American philosophy through my study of Evolutionary [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on April 27, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/04/27/integral-theory-evolutionary-enlightenment-and-american-philosophy/