Sentences with phrase «call pragmatism»

But what you call a lack of concern for political philosophy, I (and perhaps the OBers), call pragmatism.

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Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at Simon Fraser University, called the plan a prudent mix of sound economics and real - world pragmatism that creates incentives for emissions reductions.

Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping calls to challenge Beijing over issues of human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.

I wrote a book called Republocrat, for pity's sake, calling for a healthy degree of non-partisan pragmatism in our political thinking.

Detroit was to see the beginning of Niebuhr's pragmatism, that ability to break away from the givens that his biographer June Bingham calls «the courage to change.»

The pragmatism of James and the instrumentalism of Dewey may have turned the American mind away from philosophy, but Royce's theory would have called them to substitute abstract metaphysics for a living faith in revealed truth.

He calls it the principle of pragmatism, and he defends it somewhat as follows (In an article, How to make our Ideas Clear, in the Popular Science Monthly for January, 1878, vol.

On the other hand, Palmer's «objectivism» refers to the dominant strain or to an amalgam of two strains (empiricism and a certain kind of pragmatism) within the larger epistemological project that Rorty calls the «mirror of nature.»

Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s and 1880s.

Royce labored over the next thirty years to work out the implications of what he called «Absolute pragmatism,» venturing into psychology, logic, and even mathematics in an effort to puzzle out how minds can understand the will and ideas of the Absolute.

In his later writings (1905 and afterwards) Peirce sometimes referred to his own position as «pragmaticism» to distinguish it from what James and others were calling «pragmatism.»

One of the difficulties in much that has been written or said about human sexuality is that it has been altogether too much based upon what Mr. Woollard calls a «secular kind of pragmatism.»

I've called for pragmatism when we were only gung - ho, but the notion that we have to yield to Everton at home is ridiculous.

As his party gathers in Liverpool for its annual conference, Clegg admits he was completely wrong to call Cameron a «fake» and a «con» during the election campaign and has been impressed by his pragmatism and flexibility.

Octogenarian James Ivory, the acclaimed filmmaker of A Room with a View and Howards End, whose 1987 film Maurice was a landmark in gay cinema, was slated to direct Call Me, but he ended up writing the script and co-producing, handing over the reins to Guadagnino mainly as a result of financial pragmatism (Guadagnino refers to his production as «micro-budget»).

Lake also recently coauthored a terrific report (note the pragmatism baked into the title) called Making School Choice Work.

The essence of judicial pragmatism, or at least my version of it, is recognition that difficult cases — and they are legion in our system — can not be resolved at the appellate level by a distinctive process of reasoning called «legal reasoning,» emphasizing careful parsing of text and scrupulous adherence to precedent and an analytical method that resembles deductive logic.