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Pragmatism - The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots (Paperback)
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Pragmatism - The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots (Paperback)
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Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It
describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and
applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent
practice. Pragmatism was intended, by Charles S. Peirce, its
founder, as a doctrine for the rational substantiation of knowledge
claims. For Peirce, what mattered was successful prediction and
control. Practice was to serve as the arbiter of theory. Objective
efficacy, not personal satisfaction, is what matters for fixing
opinion in a community of rational inquirers. According to Nicholas
Rescher, later pragmatists saw the matter differently. They
envisioned subjective satisfactions, rather than objectively
determinable functional effectiveness, as being the aim of the
enterprise. Rescher notes that William James, in particular, had an
agenda different from that of Peirce. The two pragmatisms are
complete opposites, Rescher argues, in terms of claims and
intentions. James's soft pragmatism abandons the classical idea of
inquiry as the paramount of truth; it believes that truth is an
illusion, an unrealizable figment of the imagination. By contrast,
Peirce's hard pragmatism believes that the classic idea of truth
remains valid. Rescher seeks to examine and explore pragmatism
dialectically, with a conviction that brings pragmatism to life for
specialist and generalist alike.
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