Saturday, March 25, 2006
Notes for Tuesday, March 28
Read to p. 308.
Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and its Aftermath. (The 20th century.) James, Dewey.
William James (1848-1910)
Brother of well-know American (but oh so British) novelist Henry James. Pragmatism, a development of the thinking of the logician and semiologist Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"). Three theories of truth: coherence, correspondence, and pragmatic. The latter tends to equate truth with what makes a difference, and "works." The "tough-minded" vs. the "tender-minded."
James Dewey (1859-1952)
His thought developed in the context of politics, education and morality. The role of consciousness in the evolution of animal life. Habit vs. thought. Thought is a "response to the doubtful as such." Thinking as deferred action. Critique of traditional epistemologies: "spectator theory of knowledge." Knowledge should be instrumental: problem-solving. Dewey's influence on education in the United States. Learning through doing. Art as experience is perhaps his finest work.
Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and its Aftermath. (The 20th century.) James, Dewey.
William James (1848-1910)
Brother of well-know American (but oh so British) novelist Henry James. Pragmatism, a development of the thinking of the logician and semiologist Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"). Three theories of truth: coherence, correspondence, and pragmatic. The latter tends to equate truth with what makes a difference, and "works." The "tough-minded" vs. the "tender-minded."
James Dewey (1859-1952)
His thought developed in the context of politics, education and morality. The role of consciousness in the evolution of animal life. Habit vs. thought. Thought is a "response to the doubtful as such." Thinking as deferred action. Critique of traditional epistemologies: "spectator theory of knowledge." Knowledge should be instrumental: problem-solving. Dewey's influence on education in the United States. Learning through doing. Art as experience is perhaps his finest work.
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