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John Lachs, one of American philosophy's most distinguished interpreters, turns to William James, Josiah Royce, Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and George Santayana to elaborate stoic pragmatism, or a way to live life within reasonable limits. Stoic pragmatism makes sense of our moral obligations in a world driven by perfectionist human ambition and unreachable standards of achievement. Lachs proposes a corrective to pragmatist amelioration and stoic...
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El líder indiscutido del programa pragma-dialéctico de investigación es el doctor Frans H. van Eemeren, quien es reconocido como la figura señera de los estudios sobre argumentación en el mundo. No existía hasta ahora una colección de artículos suyos que dieran una idea más cabal de la extraordinaria amplitud y profundidad de todo su trabajo de investigación. Este libro se propone cumplir así con tres objetivos: honrar la persona y obra...
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William James (1842-1910) was one of the most original and influential American thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a professor at Harvard University, he published many works that had a wide-ranging impact on both psychology and philosophy. His Principles of Psychology was the most important English-language work on the mind since Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His Varieties of Religious Experience practically inaugurated...
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William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: 'Essays in Radical Empiricism', 'The Meaning of Truth', 'The Varieties of Religious Experience', and 'What is an Emotion?' These books helped forge a field and remain as important today as...
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Truth is increasingly, marginalized. Powerful news interests, social media and political orators all seem to point to the idea that the days of absolute Truth are past. Religions have always claimed to stand for a transcendent dimension to reality and to the idea of an absolute claim to Truth but, in the West, religion has been and is declining in influence. Fundamentalism is on the rise and this, combined with relativism, contributes to the current...
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Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. Colin Koopman engages genealogy as a philosophical tradition and a method for understanding the complex histories of our present social and cultural...
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Sobre las emociones se concibe, tal como indica su autor, como un libro de "filosofía aplicada", recurre a la experimentación y la observación, no considera irrelevante la sabiduría del pasado y tiene muy en cuenta el sentido común. No por ello prescinde de la necesidad teórica ni de las teorías científicas, con las que en ocasiones puede llegar a fundirse.
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Históricamente la terapia ocupacional ha tenido dificultades para reconocerse como una disciplina académica y científica. Esto se ha generado, en parte, por un desconocimiento de sus bases epistemológicas y teóricas centrales y por la carencia de una reflexión crítica y constante sobre su práctica clínica y profesional. Es por ello que este libro propone "rescatar" algunas de esas bases teóricas que, pese a haber sustentado el desarrollo...
9) Pragmatism
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William James, who has been called the "father of American psychology", was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, William James established the school of thought known as "Pragmatism", a philosophy which rejected the idea that language and thought exists simply to represent nature, but rather it must be useful in transacting with nature, in predicting outcomes, and solving problems. First published...
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Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume consider the role pragmatism plays, for better or worse, in current discussions of nationalism, war, race, and community. What can pragmatism contribute...
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Robert B. Talisse is professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His books include A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy. Scott F. Aikin is senior lecturer in philosophy at Vanderbilt. He is the coauthor, with Robert Talisse, of Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
A wide-ranging anthology of key pragmatist writings
The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is...
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Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition." In Democratic Hope, Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought in the work of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Peirce, testing in good pragmatic fashion the truth of propositions by their consequences in experience. Westbrook also attends to the recent revival of pragmatism by Rorty, Cheryl Misak, Richard Posner,...
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John Kaag is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton), American Philosophy: A Love Story, and Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. Jonathan van Belle is an independent scholar and former philosophy editor at Outlier.org. Kaag and van Belle are also the authors of Henry at Work:...
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I know something about you without knowing you. I bet you spend A LOT of time in your head. You know, thinking, worrying, stressing, freaking out-call it whatever you want. I call it a preoccupied mind. And with what?99% of your thoughts are useless.
William James, once the leading psychologist in America, and one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism, put it best: "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely...
15) Ética
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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) fue un filósofo holandés; uno de los pensadores de la línea racionalista, de la que formaron parte Leibniz y René Descartes. Sus ideas fueron consideradas dañinas por teólogos y religiosos y, como todo hombre que piensa adelantado a su tiempo, Spinoza sufrió muchas persecuciones religiosas y mediáticas. El conservadurismo religioso y filosófico de su tiempo lo hizo vivir en el ostracismo la mayor parte de su vida...
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The Meaning of Truth is one of William James' most important books. It is a necessary read for anyone looking to understand the nature of truth. Does it exist independently of man or does man make truth what it is? Here you will find answers to this and many other questions on the nature of truth. William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology...
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Craving an intellectually stimulating read? Dive into A Pluralistic Universe by William James, an influential thinker and psychologist who also happened to be the brother of acclaimed novelist Henry James. This lucid, gripping account outlines some of James' critiques of standard methods of reasoning. It's definitely challenging, but much more appealing to a general audience than most philosophical tracts.
Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John...
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Extrait: "Suivant une formule chère à son école: M. Bergson est en train de se faire. Nous ne parlons pas ici de sa réputation qui est déjà faite, non seulement en France, mais dans les deux hémisphères, et ne saurait guère s'amplifier davantage."
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Extrait: "Le pragmatisme s'est présenté lui-même très souvent comme une réaction contre les tendances maîtresses des systèmes qui l'ont précédé. Pour bien comprendre le sens et la portée de ce mouvement, il importe donc de considérer tout d'abord les doctrines, et particulièrement les théories de la connaissance qui ont, à partir de 1870 environ, occupé la scène philosophique en Grande-Bretagne comme aux États-Unis."
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