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The history and ideas of pragmatism

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2006
Summary: This paper examines the origins of philosophical pragmatism in the USA in the second half of the 19th-century and its development and use up to the Second World War. The story is told through the lives and ideas of some of the main originators, Oliver Wendell Holmes jun., Charles Saunders Peirce, William James and John Dewey.
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The return of the history of ideas—Observations on the evolution of research paradigms in the history of ideas

Chinese Studies in History, 2020
This paper examines the evolution of research paradigms in the history of ideas from the early twentieth century to the present, combing through the various changes which took place during this pro...
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The Idea of History and the History of Ideas

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1993
Professional nurses understand that the historian's task is to inquire into the issues and ideas of nursing's past, but may not comprehend the nature and methods of historical research. Although historical research is similar to other qualitative methods, the results are usually presented in the form of “story.” The story, called the historical ...
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FROM THE HISTORY OF IDEAS TO IDEAS IN HISTORY

Modern Intellectual History, 2012
The story of American intellectual history's decline, fall, and phoenix-like rebirth in recent decades has become trite with the retelling: knocked from its position of prominence by the new social history and plunged into the chastened soul-searching of the famed Wingspread Conference of 1977, only to find itself rescued in part by the linguistic and ...
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Visualizing the history of ideas

ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Posters, 2010
This presentation surveys the field of citation data visualization and presents new prototypes that illuminate broad intellectual regions (epistemes) through their temporal structures (paradigm shifts).
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Dermatology and the history of ideas

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1990
We studyhistoryfor many reasons,but always in the hope that we will learn something useful. Will Durant has written in The Lessons ofHistory that "the presentis the past rolledup for action; the past is the present unrolled for understanding." Thus historicalinquiryis indeeda discipline for all tenses.
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Hysteria: The History of an Idea

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
Hysteria has long been recognized as a condition involving multiple somatic symptoms and resulting from a state of the emotions. By the time of Charcot, it became possible to attribute a hysterical symptom to an idea. It appears that the first detailed statement to this effect was made by Russell Reynolds (1) and it was adopted by Charcot (2 ...
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The History of Scientific Ideas

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1964
If the traditional history of the past has emphasized and wallowed in wars and emperors, armies and dynasties, political schemes, conspiracies, plots, and all the immediacy of murder and sudden death, the history of the present and even more the history of the future, if there is to be one, must be tempered by understanding.
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The Idea of History

1990
If by a sense of history we mean a fanciful union of past events with reliques and visibilia, then Coleridge had little or none, and despised its acquisition: Of all men, I ever knew, Wordsworth himself not excepted, I have the faintest pleasure in things contingent and transitory… Nay, it goes to a disease in me — as I was gazing at a wall in ...
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