Pragmatism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370679 |
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| Authors | Wataru Koyama (Rikkyo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0324 |
| OpenAlex | W4255633032 |
| ISBN | 9781118786093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Pragmatism is an American‐born philosophical tradition, closely linked with German (neo)Kantianism, the Boasian tradition, and linguistic anthropology. This entry explores the sociohistorical, philosophical, and scientific backgrounds of pragmatism, focusing on Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and G.H. Mead. Classical pragmatism is explicated in relation not only to twentieth‐century American philosophy, including logical empiricism, (post)analytic philosophy, and neopragmatism, but also to the social sciences and activism, focusing on intertwined developments in the Midwest (Ann Abor and especially Chicago), involving Dewey, Mead, Cooley, Jane Addams and Hull House, Chicago sociology, symbolic interactionism, and in New York City, involving Dewey, Boas, Herskovitz, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke. Finally, this entry tries to explain Peircean pragmaticism/semiotics in terms of its architectonic principles and (con)textual relationships with Kant, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Völkerpsychologie, Boas, Sapir, Jakobson, and semiotic/linguistic anthropology, as well as with Latour, Whitehead, and the “ontological turn.”
American philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Empiricism · Epistemology · German · Interactionism · Linguistics · Philosophical anthropology · Pragmatism · Semiotics · Sociology · Anthropology · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Highly cited | No |
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