Torjus Midtgarden
Biographic Data
| ID | 323910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torjus Midtgarden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torjus |
| FAMILY NAME | Midtgarden |
| SIGNATURE | MIDTGARDEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Wide View of Democracy and An Inclusive Conception of The Social: Roberto Frega’s Democracy Theory and Its Deweyan Legacy
1. Introduction Perspectives and resources from John Dewey and other classical pragmatists have been applied in contemporary political philosophy for some time. Yet Roberto Frega’s Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy (2019) is to date the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to draw on several such resources and to develop them within a systematic account of democracy. Frega not only applies Dewey’s seminal conception of the public but …
Dewey, John
Dewey views democracy as a form of life extending beyond political institutions. He views a society as consisting of constellations of groups of various kinds and extensions, and sees individuals as depending on groups and their practices for development and learning. However, through agents' habitual accommodations to their social and physical environments, social practices may restrict agents' action potentials and institutions may embed and le…
Conflicting and complementary conceptions of discursive practice in non-metaphysical interpretations of Hegel
Pippin, Pinkard and Brandom are rightly seen as representatives of a distinct approach in contemporary Hegel scholarship. Still, their interpretations diverge due to different definitions and uses of conceptions of discursive practice. We focus on three ways in which such definitions and uses bear on their interpretations. First, while Lumsden has recently criticized Pinkard and Brandom for ‘discursive bias’ in their accounts of the contestation …
Critical Pragmatism: Dewey’s social philosophy revisited
Scholars like Alison Kadlec, Melvin Rogers and R.W. Hildreth have recently confronted the claim that Dewey's pragmatism lacks resources to approach issues of power, but they have not given a unified account of what theoretical framework Dewey's pragmatism provides to grapple with such issues and to articulate standards for social criticism. In this article, I explore one such framework: Dewey's outline of a social philosophy developed in his Lect…
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery
Peirce on Education: Pragmatism and Peirce’s Definition of the Purpose of a University
On The Prospects of A Semiotic Theory of Learning
Taking as its exegetic point of departure Peirce's outline of a semiotic theory of cognition from the mid 1890s, this paper explores the relevance of this outline to a theory of learning and also to a broader, normative vision of education. Firstly, besides providing for fallibilism in philosophical inquiry Peirce's outline accords with critical strategies of his fellow pragmatists, such as William James's detection of the ‘psychologist's fallacy…
Iconic aspects of language and language use: Peirces work on iconicity revisited
L'A. s'attache a montrer la dimension contemporaine de l'approche peirceenne de l'iconicite. En effet, la notion d'iconicite diagrammatique emerge de son analyse sur les aspects iconiques du langage formel et est mise en relation avec la syntaxe et la morphologie du langage naturel. Apres avoir rappele l'analyse iconique des langages logiques chez Peirce, l'A. identifie les traits structuraux des langages naturels qui justifient la comparaison en…
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
On The Prospects of A Semiotic Theory of Learning
Taking as its exegetic point of departure Peirce's outline of a semiotic theory of cognition from the mid 1890s, this paper explores the relevance of this outline to a theory of learning and also to a broader, normative vision of education. Firstly, besides providing for fallibilism in philosophical inquiry Peirce's outline accords with critical strategies of his fellow pragmatists, such as William James's detection of the ‘psychologist's fallacy…
Critical Pragmatism: Dewey’s social philosophy revisited
Scholars like Alison Kadlec, Melvin Rogers and R.W. Hildreth have recently confronted the claim that Dewey's pragmatism lacks resources to approach issues of power, but they have not given a unified account of what theoretical framework Dewey's pragmatism provides to grapple with such issues and to articulate standards for social criticism. In this article, I explore one such framework: Dewey's outline of a social philosophy developed in his Lect…
Conflicting and complementary conceptions of discursive practice in non-metaphysical interpretations of Hegel
Pippin, Pinkard and Brandom are rightly seen as representatives of a distinct approach in contemporary Hegel scholarship. Still, their interpretations diverge due to different definitions and uses of conceptions of discursive practice. We focus on three ways in which such definitions and uses bear on their interpretations. First, while Lumsden has recently criticized Pinkard and Brandom for ‘discursive bias’ in their accounts of the contestation …
Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery
Iconic aspects of language and language use: Peirces work on iconicity revisited
L'A. s'attache a montrer la dimension contemporaine de l'approche peirceenne de l'iconicite. En effet, la notion d'iconicite diagrammatique emerge de son analyse sur les aspects iconiques du langage formel et est mise en relation avec la syntaxe et la morphologie du langage naturel. Apres avoir rappele l'analyse iconique des langages logiques chez Peirce, l'A. identifie les traits structuraux des langages naturels qui justifient la comparaison en…
Introduction: Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery
Peirce on Education: Pragmatism and Peirce’s Definition of the Purpose of a University
On The Prospects of A Semiotic Theory of Learning
Taking as its exegetic point of departure Peirce's outline of a semiotic theory of cognition from the mid 1890s, this paper explores the relevance of this outline to a theory of learning and also to a broader, normative vision of education. Firstly, besides providing for fallibilism in philosophical inquiry Peirce's outline accords with critical strategies of his fellow pragmatists, such as William James's detection of the ‘psychologist's fallacy…
Toward an Agenda for Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda . In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule-based judgment to reflexive dialogue. Unlike criter…
Critical Pragmatism: Dewey’s social philosophy revisited
Scholars like Alison Kadlec, Melvin Rogers and R.W. Hildreth have recently confronted the claim that Dewey's pragmatism lacks resources to approach issues of power, but they have not given a unified account of what theoretical framework Dewey's pragmatism provides to grapple with such issues and to articulate standards for social criticism. In this article, I explore one such framework: Dewey's outline of a social philosophy developed in his Lect…
Conflicting and complementary conceptions of discursive practice in non-metaphysical interpretations of Hegel
Pippin, Pinkard and Brandom are rightly seen as representatives of a distinct approach in contemporary Hegel scholarship. Still, their interpretations diverge due to different definitions and uses of conceptions of discursive practice. We focus on three ways in which such definitions and uses bear on their interpretations. First, while Lumsden has recently criticized Pinkard and Brandom for ‘discursive bias’ in their accounts of the contestation …
Dewey, John
Dewey views democracy as a form of life extending beyond political institutions. He views a society as consisting of constellations of groups of various kinds and extensions, and sees individuals as depending on groups and their practices for development and learning. However, through agents' habitual accommodations to their social and physical environments, social practices may restrict agents' action potentials and institutions may embed and le…
A Wide View of Democracy and An Inclusive Conception of The Social: Roberto Frega’s Democracy Theory and Its Deweyan Legacy
1. Introduction Perspectives and resources from John Dewey and other classical pragmatists have been applied in contemporary political philosophy for some time. Yet Roberto Frega’s Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy (2019) is to date the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to draw on several such resources and to develop them within a systematic account of democracy. Frega not only applies Dewey’s seminal conception of the public but …
Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Pragmatism (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Criticism (3 works)