pragmatism

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Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition, prominently developed by William James, that evaluates ideas and beliefs primarily by their practical consequences and usefulness in experience.

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American pragmatism 21
pragmatism canonical 3
Pragmatism 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical movement
philosophical tradition
appliedIn education
epistemology
ethics
law
philosophy of science
associatedWithWork Democracy and Education
Experience and Nature
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
The Fixation of Belief
The Will to Believe
developedBy Charles Sanders Peirce
F. C. S. Schiller
George Herbert Mead
John Dewey
William James
emphasizes action
consequences of beliefs
experience
practice over abstract theory
hasCoreIdea ideas and beliefs are evaluated by their practical consequences
meaning of a concept is tied to its practical effects
truth is linked to usefulness in experience
hasKeyConcept anti-foundationalism
community of inquiry
fallibilism
instrumentalism
pluralism
truth as what works in the long run
hasNotableProponent Charles Sanders Peirce
Hilary Putnam
John Dewey
Richard Rorty
W. V. O. Quine
William James
hasVariant classical pragmatism
instrumentalism
neo-pragmatism
pragmatic realism
influenced analytic philosophy
education theory
legal theory
political theory
social reform movements
influencedBy American cultural context
empiricism
evolutionary theory
scientific method
opposes metaphysical absolutism
strict rationalism
originatedIn United States
originatedInPeriod late 19th century

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William James movement pragmatism
Charles Hartshorne philosophicalSchool American pragmatism
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Democracy and Education influencedBy American pragmatism
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Experience and Nature philosophicalSchool American pragmatism
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Human Nature and Conduct influencedBy American pragmatism
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The Public and Its Problems philosophicalTradition American pragmatism
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Logic: The Theory of Inquiry philosophicalTradition American pragmatism
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Charles Sanders Peirce movement pragmatism
Richard Rorty movement pragmatism
Richard Rorty movement neo-pragmatism
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Between Facts and Norms influencedBy American pragmatism
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Sidney Hook fieldOfWork American pragmatism
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George Santayana movement American pragmatism
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking influenced American pragmatism
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Essays in Radical Empiricism relatedWork Pragmatism
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Modes of Thought influenced American pragmatism
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Stanley Cavell influenced American pragmatism
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Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes influencedBy American pragmatism
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Robert Brandom philosophicalSchool American pragmatism
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Culture and Human Destiny influencedBy American pragmatism
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The Decline and Rise of the Consumer theoreticalContext American pragmatism
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Secularism Is the Will of God philosophicalTradition American pragmatism
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Why Religion? philosophicalTradition American pragmatism
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Mind, Self and Society academicDiscipline American pragmatism
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Mind and the World-Order influencedBy American pragmatism
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An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation influencedBy American pragmatism
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