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The Problem of Mind and Other Minds in William James’s Pragmatism
2008
The chapter explicates William James’s pragmatist conception of the human mind and his way of approaching the problem of other minds. James’s pragmatism is usually classified among empiricist and associationist philosophies of mind, but as is shown, it can also be understood according to its Kantian features. In James’s view, the mind is really an active and a purpose-oriented organizing principle which structures our lifeworld. The main difference between James’s pragmatism and Kant’s transcendental philosophy is that James does not make any explicit distinction between psychological and philosophical inquiries into the mind; he based his philosophy of mind on the same introspective method…
Talking about something real: the concept of truth in multimodal non-fiction books for young people
2016
AbstractWithin social semiotics we discuss how different semiotic resources alone or in multimodal texts are used to communicate truth. This is one of the parts of the multimodal theory that are least developed and discussed. The discussion on truth within social semiotics is mainly focused on the relationship between a corresponding type of truth that is common in natural science and a more everyday perception of truth. This can give an incomplete and stereotypical image of how truth is portrayed. This essay attempts to nuance the picture by suggesting that our theoretical conceptions of how we portray truth visually can be nuanced and developed by combining the theory of multimodality wit…
A recent guide to the study of pragmatism
2009
A Recent Guide to the Study of Pragmatism
This is my truth, tell me yours: some aspects of action research quality in the light of truth theories
2001
Abstract In this article the authors introduce some aspects of various truth theories in the context of action research. The traditional ways of determining quality are based on the correspondence theory of truth, which, in their view, conflicts with the basic assumptions of action research. The pragmatic theory of truth seems to be clearly represented in the world of action research. In their opinion, other theories of truth can be productively applied as well. In addition to the classical theories of truth – the correspondence theory, the coherence theory and the pragmatistic view on truth – they discuss the truth as ‘aletheia’ (a Heideggerian view on truth), as Habermasian consensus and …
La hermenéutica crítica de Habermas: una «profundización» de la hermenéutica gadameriana
2017
RESUMENEn este artículo queremos analizar brevemente los rasgos principales de la hermenéutica filosófica de Gadamer, revelando la importancia pragmática de conceptos como arché, mythos o dihairesis. En la segunda parte, confrontaremos esta propuesta con las críticas que en su día le hizo Habermas, acompañando a Apel, para «profundizar» en la hermenéutica. Éste fue el punto de partida para fundamentar su conocida pragmática universal.PALABRAS CLAVEGADAMER, HERMENÉUTICA, CRÍTICA, HABERMAS, LENGUAJEABSTRACTIn this article we briefly examine the main features of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, revealing the pragmatic importance of concepts like arché, mythos or dihairesis. In the second …
The Individual and the Community in Stoic Pragmatism
2023
The present paper outlines John Lachs’s idea of stoic pragmatism and develops its important part that is the relation between the individual and the community. In his project, Lachs reduces the whole tradition of Stoic philosophy to its later, Roman version and tries to link it with the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism (especially William James, John Dewey, and George Santayana, who is close to pragmatism at some points) hoping that it is possible for these two to "enrich and complete each other" so that to provide "a better attitude to life than either of the two views alone." Stoic pragmatism pursues factual improvement in the quality of life for individuals living in given …
Online Civic Identity. Extraction of Features
2013
Abstract The paper presents the importance of study the reactions of the readers and writers of online journals forums from the civic identity point of view, in order to put in evidence categories of publics in the benefit of media, persons and groups. The method is intended to help journalists, PR specialists who are motivated to understand their publics and to target them in a more precise way, in order to upgrade the impact of their online discourse on the people in the community, to know how deep the civic involvement of the people is to the problems of the community.
Estilo y autoría en la información. Una aparente ausencia de identidad
2009
Dolors.Palau@uv.es Los textos periodísticos son un reflejo de los diversos estilos, de la diversidad de formas de ver y construir la realidad de los periodistas que los elaboran. Más allá de la prescripción y las posturas acríticas que han presidido la reflexión sobre estas cuestiones, este artículo aboga por un análisis que saque a la luz los mecanismos lingüísticos en los que se refleja el punto de vista, las estrategias que subyacen a una aparente ausencia de identidad, a una autoría pretendidamente enmascarada. Para ello parte de una revisión pluridisciplinar de los conceptos de estilo y autor, antes de proponer y aplicar un método de análisis pragmaestilístico. Journalistic articles ar…
Polityczność kwestii światopoglądowych w ujęciu dyskursywnym
2014
One of the dimensions of axiological values’ and agendas’ presence in the public sphere is seeing worldview as being political. Due to the nature of the phenomenon of belief as well as the category of politics, proposed consideration of these issues in the analysis of political science may be a discursive approach. Mechanisms which are revealing on the basis of discourse allow to specify categories of naturalization and pragmatism as the two basic types of articulation. As a result, we can identify examples of the implications of this phenomenon that have been identified in the form of SEP (somebody’s else problem) and tensions within the public-private dichotomy.
Frank H. Knight, pragmatism, and American institutionalism: A note
2009
This note deals with the debated question of whether, and to what extent, Frank Knight's epistemology was consistent with the general philosophy of American pragmatism. First, in accord with recent interpretations, I provide new evidence illustrating that Knight's views on science, knowledge and related philosophical topics present some important similarities with the pragmatic tradition. Second, I attempt to demonstrate that Knight's unsympathetic reading of Dewy and pragmatism was, to a relevant extent, a consequence of his aversion to the so-called scientific wing of American interwar institutionalism. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.