There was more implied in Kant’s theory of knowledge than the fact that what we see is not an objective world in itself, but rather a picture that is created by us based on sense experience. (As if that wasn’t enough.) Besides stating that we are in an essential way the creators of the world [...]
All posts tagged Pragmatism
Commitment and Reality: From Kant to Peirce
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 6, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/06/commitment-and-reality-from-kant-to-peirce/
Kant and the Creation of Reality
The American Philosophers from the Transcendentalists to the Pragmatists were all following in the footsteps of the great German Idealist Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804). This isn’t too surprising because all of Western Philosophy follows in the footsteps of Kant. In 1781 Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason and rocked the world of philosophy. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 1, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/01/kant-and-the-creation-of-reality/
Why do worldviews clash?
I am fascinated by the discussion that has ensued based on my last post and I hope to tempt your considerable powers of inquiry in a direction that I have been contemplating in response to your comments. I have been thinking about how challenging philosophical discussion can be and I think that part of that [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on September 11, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/09/11/why-do-worldviews-clash/
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Conception of Nature
The Pragmatic definition of truth may have deep roots in American thought, but to uncover the metaphysical conception that is the ground under Pragmatism’s feet we should look one generation earlier into the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson’s Transcendentalism, which recognizes intuition and not logic as the ultimate source of wisdom, stands in opposition [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 15, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/15/ralph-waldo-emerson%e2%80%99s-conception-of-nature/
If Pragmatism was so great, what happened to it?
Pragmatism was a powerful force in World Philosophy during the early decades of the twentieth century. Then the First World War erupted, followed by the Great Depression, and later the horror of the Second World War. With these events, the progressive modernism, of which Pragmatism was surely a part, began to fall out of favor. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 2, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/02/if-pragmatism-was-so-great-what-happened-to-it/
Freewill, To Believe or Not To Believe
I saw that both Carl and Brian noticed my use of the phrase “caved in” in expressing the fact that I was not convinced about the Behaviorist view. There is so much fantastic insight in all of the comments that have gone up from all of you, but I wanted first to use this phrase [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on July 16, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/07/16/freewill-to-believe-or-not-to-believe/
John Dewey and the Unity of Mind and Matter
One of the challenges of the philosophy of Pragmatism is that it is too easy to reduce its complexity and subtlety to simple utilitarianism. Some of the same language that William James used to almost single handedly popularized Pragmatism into an international philosophic sensation probably also exasperated this problem. Statements like, “Grant an idea or [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on May 11, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/05/11/john-dewey-and-the-unity-of-mind-and-matter/
Pragmatism – The Western Law of Karma
It occurred to me that now would be as good a time as any to talk a little bit about truth and inquiry. I am reading Charles Sanders Peirce right now so that has given me a lot to think about. Peirce (pronounced “purse”) was the originator of the conception of Pragmatism although it was [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on May 8, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/05/08/pragmatism-the-western-law-of-karma/
