Charles Peirce and the origins of North American pragmatism

The early American pragmatists are often taken in separation with a focus on their differences. This introductory essay is meant simply as a reminder that they thought highly of each other’s work and they shared a variety of outlooks in their respective world views. Most importantly, they believed t...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Anderson, Douglas
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repository:Cognitio (São Paulo. Online)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/46506
Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/46506
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Abdução
Criatividade
Meliorismo
Peirce
Sinequismo.
Abduction
Creativity
Meliorism
Synechism.
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Summary:The early American pragmatists are often taken in separation with a focus on their differences. This introductory essay is meant simply as a reminder that they thought highly of each other’s work and they shared a variety of outlooks in their respective world views. Most importantly, they believed that we are always on the hunt for new knowledge by way of experience, thought, and experiment. They took their own world views to be hypotheses about the realities of the world we experience. And they each believed that the extremes of dogma and skepticism are the outlooks that will prevent us from learning more. In what follows, I merely remind readers of some of their shared thought.