2017 - Franco Angeli
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Scientific and not Scientistic : the Rich Realism of Pragmatism
401-414 p.
- In the late years, contemporary philosophy turned towards different forms of realism. Classic pragmatism becomes important again because it can grant a realism respectful of both science and common sense. However, the meaning of realism in a pragmatist perspective is not always clear. A fashionable transcendental reading of pragmatism often reduces it to a chapter of the rationalist project that goes from Kant to analytic philosophy or to a plausible amendment of the latter. Eventually, pragmatist defense of science becomes a cultural support of a neo-scientist version of science.
- This interpretation loses the originality of pragmatism and its revolutionary look at the contemporary enterprise of thought. The paper shows that classic pragmatists proposed a very peculiar kind of realism that is completely at odd with any sort of scientism as much as it is in favor of the real process of scientific inquiry. The paper clarifies the distance between pragmatism and scientism (I), the kind of realism advocated by classic pragmatists - in particular by Peirce - (II), and a different view of science that follows this realism (III). [Publisher's Text].
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Rivista di storia della filosofia : LXXII, 3, 2017-
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Realism, science, scientism, Peirce, analysis, synthesis
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In derselben Datei
- Pragmatism : some new ways of thinking for an old name
- Pragmatism in the European Scene : the Heidelberg International Congress of Philosophy, 1908
- Scientific and not Scientistic : the Rich Realism of Pragmatism
- Peirce's Inversions of the Topological and the Logica! : forgotten Roads for our Contemporary World
- The Tones, Tints, and Textures of Temporality : toward a Reconstruction of Peirce's Philosophy of Time
- The Double Pace of Habits : Time and Timeless in Pragmatic Experience
- William James's Naturalism Within the Common Project of Pragmatist Philosophy
- Can We Secularize the Will to Believe?
- Aesthetic Naturalism and the «Ways of Art» : linking John Dewey and Samuel Alexander
- Theoretical Conclusions : Tradition and Truth
- Index