Tag: "pragmatism"

Dewey and Darwin

Tim Madigan on how Darwin influenced the Pragmatist.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Food for Thought]

The Metaphysics of Nature

Rich Grego compares John Dewey’s and Martin Heidegger’s views on ecology.
[Issue 65: January/February 2008: Green Philosophy]

Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Gideon Calder reports after the death of the infamous pragmatist.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Obituary]

Hilary Putnam on Realism, Truth & Reason

Putnam is one of today’s leading living philosophers. He has changed his ideas repeatedly on some central philosophical problems including the nature of truth. Christopher Norris tells the story so far.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005: Articles]

Philosophical Reasoning by Nicholas Rescher

James Thomas explores a pragmatic but idealistic book about truth by Nicholas Rescher.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Books]

McCarthyism and American Philosophy

John Capps argues that Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist purges helped positivism to triumph over pragmatism in American universities in the 1950’s.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Democracy]

Love & Logic

After he fell in love, John Dewey became one of the greatest of American thinkers. Nancy Bunge describes Alice Chipman’s impact on Dewey’s Psychology.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Let’s Be Pragmatic!

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Editorial]

Art & Science Reconciled

Nikolaos Gkogkas on the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: American Pragmatism]

Charles Sanders Peirce: The Architect of Pragmatism

Cornelis de Waal on the man and his ideas.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: American Pragmatism]