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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’.
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Neo-Pragmatism and its Critics

2012
A basic idea of pragmatism can be formulated as the view that it is action, rather than consciousness, that is the vehicle of thought.1 Moreover, pragmatists link actions to inventive self-development and creative problem solving. In the modern period, we find this inchoate idea emerging both in Bacon’s conjoining of the ideas of knowledge and power ...
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Color Primitivism and Neo-pragmatism

2017
This chapter responds to criticisms raised by Jonathan Cohen, on behalf of reductionists, to the Benacerraf-style argument for color primitivism offered in Chapter One. The response stresses the fact that the argument for primitivism is perfectly consistent with the idea that some ostensively taught terms—terms for natural kinds, for example—refer to ...
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Neo-Pragmatism, Primitive Intentionality and Animal Minds

Philosophia, 2018
According to Hutto and Satne (Philosophia, 43(3), 521–536, 2015), an “essential tension” plagues contemporary neo-Pragmatist accounts of mental contents: their explanation of the emergence and constitution of intentional mental contents is circular.
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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
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The Concept of Solidarity in Richard Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism Thought

Spirituality and Local Wisdom, 2022
This paper aims to examine solidarity in the view of one of the philosophers, Richard Rorty. The subject of discussion in this study is: 1) The concept of solidarity in the thinking of Richard Rorty; and 2) What is underlying Richard Rorty formulating the concept of solidarity.
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Neo-Pragmatism and the New Aesthetic

1995
The end of the nineteenth century brought with it the end of philosophy, or so some philosophers believed. Philosophy’s “death” was attributable to two causes. First, there was the translation of all philosophical questions into the language of the positive sciences.
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One More Look at (Neo-)Pragmatism in Public Administration

Administration & 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 ...
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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.
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FROM A SEMIOTIC TO A NEO-PRAGMATIC UNDERSTANDING OF METAPHOR

DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, 1996
Comparaison entre l'approche peirceenne de la metaphore chez C. Hausman et l'approche de R. Rorty qui s'inscrit dans la lignee Dewey-Davidson. Confrontant les positions de Rorty et Peirce sur la question de la representation et de l'epistemologie dans les cadres respectifs du neo-pragmatisme et de la semiotique, l'A.
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