Sentences with phrase «american pragmatist»

100 % american pragmatist.

Such a brass - tacks perspective would seem to make Forge's pointillist abstractions strange bedfellows with the all - white paintings of the American pragmatist Robert Ryman — both artists approach each new work as tabula rasa, an unpremeditated engagement with the empty surface (in a 1985 interview, Forge cites Monet's claim that he painted «as though he were a blind man who had just recovered his sight»)-- but there is an experiential connection as well.

In our verbal exchanges, I came to realize that Hafif wasn't so much a practitioner of Zen (as many would no doubt falsely believe) as she was, ultimately, a «self - reliant» American pragmatist of the first order.

Bennett, for instance, skips over the Middle Ages, omitting everyone from Augustine to Ockham, mentions Locke and Hobbes but not Hume, Kant, or Hegel, affirms Hawthorne and Melville but not Dickinson, Faulkner but not Hemingway, and completely ignores Whitehead, Bergson, and the American pragmatists.

Nevertheless, as Richard Bernstein has observed, the American pragmatists — especially Peirce, James, and Dewey — had already thematized an anti-foundational approach to philosophy before the First World War.

Compiling representative anthologies of process philosophical writing, Douglas Browning in 1965 (POP) and J. R. Sibley and P. A. Y. Gunter in 1978 (PPBW) include Bergson, selections from the later evolutionary cosmology of C. S. Peirce, Samuel Alexander, and C. Lloyd Morgan along with Whitehead and several American pragmatists as constituting the main «process philosophers.»

Quite apart from this problematic classification of Anglo - American realists and American pragmatists (cf. GMPT 136 - 80) such conventional associations tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the influence of evolutionist theories on Whitehead's philosophical development, and do nothing to clarify the actual influence on, or to evaluate the compatibility of evolutionary cosmologies with, Whitehead's philosophy.

Third, the texts also showed common positive, though not uncriticized, influences through Bergson and the American pragmatists — chiefly, in Whitehead's case, John Dewey.1 As a result of these positive influences, the texts displayed identical concerns for recovering the concreteness of experience, reinterpreting the body achieving a new understanding of space and time, and elucidating the immediacy of experience as a justification for philosophy itself.

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

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In this season of crisis in American religion, Jayber Crow is a consoling reminder of that faithful pragmatist in Jesus» sermon who builds his house on the rock so that it can withstand the storm and the flood.

That was my real argument: Americans are pragmatists, not ideologues.

It seems improbable that our American colleagues will ever again see the likes of the trio of great legal pragmatists, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand.