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PRAGMATISM CYBRARY

Visit the Cybrarian John Shook


Pragmatism is a movement in American philosophy
which began in the 1870s with the Metaphysical Club. Read about the history of
pragmatism and get introductions to pragmatism and pragmatists.




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pragmatists

classical recent Charles Peirce
William James
F.C.S. Schiller
John Dewey
George Mead
Jane Addams
James Tufts
Edward Ames
Alain Locke
Charles Morris
C. I. Lewis W. V. Quine
Sidney Hook
Hilary Putnam
Richard Rorty
Nicholas Rescher
Larry Laudan
Joseph Margolis
Paul Kurtz
Mark Johnson
Susan Haack
Cornel West




organizations

Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy

Institute for American Thought

Charles S. Peirce Society

Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway

Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos

Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism

William James Society

William James Cybrary

John Dewey Society

Center for Dewey Studies

The Mead Project

Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana

more organizations...

 


FREDERICK L. WILL

All his books and related materials about his pragmatic realism have been posted
by Kenneth Westphal here:

http://illinois.academia.edu/FrederickLWill


 




AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL AND CULTURAL THOUGHT

The American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought, located near
Carbondale, Illinois, fosters the study of philosophical and cultural thought in
America by collecting and archiving literary and educational resources,
providing access to those resources to scholarly researchers, and disseminating
education about American philosophical and cultural thought. AIPCT maintains an
organized archival library, consisting of approximately 35,000 donated books and
collections of papers, and also purchased items using monetary donations. AIPCT
encourages the use of these research materials by permitting scholars to access
them at the Institute, located near Carbondale, Illinois. AIPCT will also foster
other kinds of scholarly activities, such as workshops, website information,
online conferencing, and academic publishing, relating to its educational
mission.





CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM BOOK REVIEWS

Recent books are available for reviewing. Book reviews are typically 1,000 to
1,500 words in length, and longer reviews for volumes of collected chapters are
welcome. To receive a book review assignment, contact jrshook@buffalo.edu to
obtain the style guidelines. Visit the journal's homepage at Brill:
www.brill.com/products/journal/contemporary-pragmatism

 

 


EVENTS

See the Peirce Society calendar and the SAAP calendar.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer Seminar on the Future of Philosophical Practice:

University of North Carolina at Asheville
Friday July 14, 2017 to Sunday July 16, 2017

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: Monday May 15, 2017
We invite abstract submissions (600 words) to read a 30-minute paper on the Main
Program. The local hosts are Brian E. Butler and Grace Campbell. They are
collecting the 600-word abstracts for committee consideration. Please submit
your proposals to his address (bbutler@unca.edu). He can also answer questions
about local accommodations.


Theme:
This summer seminar brings together a "continental congress" of philosophers,
and other related stakeholders, to discuss the future of philosophical practice
(within and beyond the academy). We are interested in any paper proposal that
engages with our theme, broadly construed. For example:

Genealogies of the problems facing professional philosophy
Philosophy beyond the traditional philosophy department
The economics of practicing philosophy (e.g. philosophical coaching, and other
models)
The role of public philosophy in an uncertain age
Intersectional, decolonized, and other alternatives to mainstream philosophy
Reading, Teaching, Practice: Philosophical Curriculum in the Twenty First
Century

In addition to our regular conference schedule, other activities are planned
such as:

A Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) panel. SOPHIA will host a panel
intended to introduce people to what we do. SOPHIA's mission is to build
communities of philosophical conversation, locally, nationally, and online. We
will invite key local community members to come talk about "Ethics at the End of
Life." We will begin our discussion with a short reading: "It's Over Debbie," on
the basis of which we will all be on the same page. For more information about
SOPHIA and our panel, visit PhilosophersInAmerica.com, or email Executive
Director Eric Thomas Weber at etweber@gmail.com.


A Philosophy Pilot Program Working Group: a working group, led by Leonard Waks
and Eli Kramer, meeting throughout the weekend, to plan the foundations for a
new pilot philosophy program. The goal is to create a program that can address
the structural, fiscal, and economic problems facing the current professional
model of doing philosophy. The working group will create a steering committee to
continue after the meeting. The Philosophy Pilot Program Workshop will start
with an evening introductory meeting on Thursday July 13, 2017. If you are
interested in participating in the working group contact Eli Kramer at
Eliornerkramer@gmail.com. Further details on the working-group schedule will be
provided in May/June.

The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought (AIPCT)
(www.americanphilosophy.net) will host an informational and discussion panel
about the future of cultural thought, as a whole, led by Randall Auxier of
Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

 


EDITORIAL


THE ECLIPSE OF PRAGMATISM?

There has been much talk of pragmatism's "eclipse" during analytic philosophy's
greatest dominance from 1950 to 1990. The myth must be corrected: pragmatism was
never eclipsed. While pragmatism was a prominent competitor with rival
neo-idealisms and new realisms during the first two decades of the 20th century,
pragmatism had few representatives across the top twenty philosophy departments.
Already quite marginalized in the 1920s and 1930s, the handful of pragmatist
professors such as Dewey at Columbia and Mead at Chicago encouraged many of
their students to go into psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics,
education, and economics. Many of the best new minds favorable towards
pragmatism strongly influenced the social sciences during the 1940s - 1980s.

In philosophy departments, pragmatism remained marginalized. However, Harvard
and Columbia were still fairly pragmatic and carried on the debate. C.I. Lewis,
Morton White, and W.V. Quine at Harvard, along with Ernest Nagel, Signey
Morgenbesser, and Isaac Levi at Columbia, each pursued some pragmatist themes.
Many of their students have in turn defended selected pragmatist views, much
diluted and transformed, but still consistent with pragmatic naturalism (eg.
views seen in Putnam, Davidson, Dennett, Churchland, etc). Supplemented by the
efforts of renegade analytic philosophers such as Richard Rorty, pragmatism
remained marginalized, yet very potent and defended by a few major figures at
prominent philosophy departments. Visit The Genealogy Center for details. When
philosophy became more interdisciplinary in the 1990s, its encounters with
linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, semiotics, etc., brought it back
into contact with flourishing pragmatist views.

In summary, pragmatism has been a small but potent philosophy before and after
WW II. Its contemporary vitality is enhanced by philosophy's re-engagement with
the social and cognitive sciences. --J.S.

 


WHERE DO PRAGMATISTS COME FROM?

Nearly 300 scholars are included in the Cybrary's lists of philosophy professors
whose research and teaching interests include pragmatism. Where did they come
from? Which doctoral programs turn out graduates who learned about pragmatism
and maintained that interest in their careers? The Pragmatism Cybrary won't rate
PhD programs for quality or job placement, but these numbers let you draw your
own conclusions. Note that most of these programs have turned out pragmatists
for generations.

Columbia University, 19. Fordham University, 14. Southern Illinois University,
13. Vanderbilt University, 12. Pennsylvania State University, 11. University of
Chicago, 11. Saint Louis University, 10. SUNY at Stony Brook, 10. University of
Notre Dame, 10. Yale University, 10. Boston University, 9. Harvard University,
9. Princeton University, 8. University of Pennsylvania, 8. Emory University, 7.
Purdue University, 6. University of Texas, 6. Boston College, 5. Claremont
Graduate University, 5. Loyola University, Chicago, 5. University of Miami, 5.
University of Oregon, 5. City University of New York, 4. Tulane University, 4.
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4. University of Michigan, 4. University
of Western Ontario, 4.

 


SPOTLIGHT: PRAGMATISM IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Pragmatism was the original functional psychology and cognitive science that (1)
explains intelligence in terms of deliberate purposive conduct, and (2) explains
knowledge as successful predictions about manipulating nature. Experience and
mind are not limited to, or reducible to, brain events -- experience, mind, and
the like are evolving natural systems of organism-environment transactions.

You can read defenses of some or all of these principles in the recent works of
Andy Clark (Edinburgh, UK),   Susan Hurley (Bristol, UK),   Alva Noë (UC
Berkeley, USA),   Mark Rowlands (Hertfordshire, UK),   Robert Wilson (Alberta,
CAN),   and Teed Rockwell (Sonoma, USA).
--J.S.

 

points of interest

John Dewey



"The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be
termed pragmatic. Its essential feature is to maintain the continuity of knowing
with an activity which purposely modifies the environment." -- Democracy and
Education, 1916.

Click here to find out more.

 

The Essential Dewey



Based on the critical edition of Dewey's work, the two volumes of The Essential
Dewey presents for the first time a collection of Dewey's writings that is both
manageable and comprehensive.

Click here to purchase.

 

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