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Pragmatism, neo‐pragmatism and sociocultural theory

Journal of Documentation, 2005
PurposeTo show that the neo‐pragmatist position of Richard Rorty, when combined with a sociocultural perspective, provides library and information science (LIS) with a forceful epistemological tool.Design/methodology/approachLiterature‐based conceptual analysis of: historical development of pragmatism in relation to other epistemological positions; neo‐
Olof Sundin
exaly   +2 more sources

Neo-pragmatism, morality, and the specification problem

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2018
AbstractA defender of any view of moral language must explain how people with different moral views can be be talking to each other, rather than past each other. For expressivists this problem drastically constrains the search for the specific attitude expressed by, say, ‘immoral’.
Joshua Gert
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American Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism in Their Affinities with European Philosophical Hermeneutics

, 2004
Jaroslav Hroch
exaly   +4 more sources

One More Look at (Neo-)Pragmatism in Public Administration

Administration and Society, 2015
The continued interest in (neo-)pragmatism for public administration is a validation of the very kind of democratic discourse that the philosophy holds dear. Yet the back-and-forth also reinforces a critique coming from one of its major figures, Richard Rorty: We seem to be jockeying for position in an analytic language game that will never have a ...
David Oliver Kasdan
exaly   +2 more sources

Neo-Pragmatism without Pragmatism: A Look at Rorty

1999
Abstract While the position of classical American pragmatism is, with a few exceptions, strangely silent in the area of business ethics, the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty has gained some significant inroads within the field and is usually taken as representative of the pragmatic position in general.
Sandra B Rosenthal, Rogene A Buchholz
exaly   +2 more sources

Wittgenstein and the genesis of neo-pragmatism in American thought

History of European Ideas, 2015
SUMMARYWhile commentators have noted that the revival of pragmatism in recent decades can be understood in the context of a larger turn towards anti-foundational thought, they have largely ignored the important and complicated role that Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas about foundationalism played in that revival.
John Erik Hmiel
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The best road for pragmatism: Neo-Pragmatism or radical interactionism?

, 2013
Abstract Athens’ Radical Interactionism and Rorty’s neopragmatism represent two differing interpretations of pragmatist philosophy that are used to inform contemporary approaches to social inquiry. Athens’ and Rorty’s views differ greatly in their positions on the implications of a Darwinian worldview, leading to different ...
James Shaw
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Star Trek: Voyager: Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism as False Infinities

, 2016
The creators of Star Trek dedicated virtually an entire series (Voyager) to show how pragmatism and neo-pragmatism lead to undesirable/unstable/catastrophic outcomes. Conversely, the series depicts how ethics and principles are key to (yes!) achieving success in the face of dire/difficult circumstances.
George A. Gonzalez
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Medicine and the paradigm of Neo-pragmatism a contribution to medical decision theory

Theory and Decision, 1986
The epistemological paradigm of Systematic Neo-Pragmatism, supported by the author, is closely connected with the (semiotic-) pragmatical notion of “model”. The latter is expounded, and the models in medicine are characterised on the basis of flow charts and correlation-diagrams of the process of diagnosis.
Herbert Stachowiak
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Three Types of American Neo-Pragmatism

Journal of Philosophical Research, 1993
Jon Avery
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