Monday, March 2, 2009

PRAGMATISM

Charles Pierce      .     William James      .      John Dewey

Pierce founded the Metaphysics Club at Harvard.  Members included Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.  

  • Pragmatism is problem-solving.  It rejects and embraces materialism.  
  • Reality is pluralistic. 
  • Whatever works, choose.  
  • Things are constantly evolving.
  • Reality happens over a period of time; it is a process.
  • Consequential
  • With a vision of the future, we can make it happen
  • Things against it:  muddled thinking and does not answer "what is reality?"