Normative Science and the Pragmatic Maxim

1996 ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Vincent G. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Late Development ◽  
System P ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Pragmatic Maxim

This chapter explores how Charles Sanders Peirce was convinced that his account of the hierarchical dependence of logic on ethics, and of ethics on esthetics, was a discovery of fundamental importance for a correct understanding of his thought, and one that distinguished his “pragmaticism” from other, more familiar, interpretations of his own famous maxim. It would be a mistake to think that because this was a late development in Peirce's thought, it was an afterthought. It would also be a mistake to think that because Peirce's exposition of that role was short and unsatisfactory, it was not an integral part of what he conceived to be his “architectonic” system.

Pragmatism & the Normative Sciences

1996 ◽  
pp. 1-68
Author(s):  
Vincent G. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Pragmatic Maxim

This chapter discusses Charles S. Pierce's pragmatism. Although Peirce came to recognize the nature and role of the normative sciences only late in his career, still he was convinced that his own account of the hierarchical dependence of logic on ethics and of ethics on esthetics was a discovery of fundamental importance for a correct understanding of his system, and one which distinguished his “pragmaticism” from other less correct interpretations of his own famous maxim. The conclusion one must draw is that despite the relatively short time Peirce’spent working out his conception of normative science, and despite his many hesitations as to what ought to be included under that rubric, he had seen where and how the notion not only fitted into his view of philosophy, but he had also in some way united the whole thing, molding his earlier attempts at formulating the pragmatic maxim into a comprehensive and highly subtle analysis of meaning.

The Pragmatic Method

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Jackman
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Pragmatic Maxim

This article examines the pragmatic method and its application in solving philosophical problems. While classical pragmatism quickly became identified with the theory of truth that dominated critical discussions of it, both of its founders, Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, understood pragmatism essentially as a method. The article begins with an overview of pragmatism and the “Pragmatic Maxim”. In particular, it compares Peirce’s conceptions of pragmatism with James’s view that the pragmatic method would allow us to resolve many disputes in philosophy, and argues that their differences undermine any purely ‘Peircian’ reading of James’s Pragmatic Maxim. It then examines the advantages and drawbacks of three other readings of James’s maxim: the “activist” reading, the “subjectivist” reading, and the “practical” reading.

Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim: Realist or Nominalist?

1996 ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent G. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Pragmatic Maxim ◽  
Philosophical Doctrine

This chapter argues that American pragmatism is not to be simply identified with positivism. Positivism refers to a rather extreme form of nominalism that developed along the lines of classical empiricism. Nominalism refers to any philosophical doctrine that denies the reality of general ideas as part of the ontological structure of things. While this is an incomplete characterization of positivism, it is sufficient in the sense that these essential notes of nominalism are what the chapter denies of pragmaticism as developed by Charles Sanders Peirce. It should also be said at the outset that certain forms of classical rationalism are likewise nominalistic and have developed into a type of positivism all their own.

scholarly journals THE MOTIVES OF MAN-GOD IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF L. FEUERBACH

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
JULIET B. BYAZROVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

For the modern historical and philosophical period, to which L. Feuerbach belonged, the problem of man and society was one of the main ones. A correct understanding of human nature was of fundamental importance for him. It also guaranteed correct relations in society at the horizontal level (the relationship of a person to another person) and vertical (the relationship of a person to the state and the state to a person). The existing widespread views on this problem did not satisfy L. Feuerbach. They were, in his opinion, not only erroneous, but harmful. He criticized Christianity and objective idealism for the alienation of the essence of man and its hypostatization. All the predicates, he insistently repeats, with which man gives God, are of human origin. Religion as well as objective idealism do not have their own object of reflection. They have appropriated what does not belong to them. L. Feuerbach demands that theology should turn into anthropology, and philosophy should be guided by the sciences about man as a natural, natural being, without rejection of moral, moral and spiritual attributes...

Comparison of TEM and STM observations of small silver clusters on different carbon supports

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-265
Author(s):  
Bernd Tesche ◽  
Tobias Schilling
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Isolation ◽  
Pyrolytic Graphite ◽  
Carbon Film ◽  
Silver Clusters ◽  
Carbon Supports ◽  
Stacking Order ◽  
System P ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Degree Of Order

The objective of our work is to determine:a) whether both of the imaging methods (TEM, STM) yield comparable data andb) which method is better suited for a reliable structure analysis of microclusters smaller than 1.5 nm, where a deviation of the bulk structure is expected.The silver was evaporated in a bell-jar system (p 10−5 pa) and deposited onto a 6 nm thick amorphous carbon film and a freshly cleaved highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG).The average deposited Ag thickness is 0.1 nm, controlled by a quartz crystal microbalance at a deposition rate of 0.02 nm/sec. The high resolution TEM investigations (100 kV) were executed by a hollow-cone illumination (HCI). For the STM investigations a commercial STM was used. With special vibration isolation we achieved a resolution of 0.06 nm (inserted diffraction image in Fig. 1c). The carbon film shows the remarkable reduction in noise by using HCI (Fig. 1a). The HOPG substrate (Fig. 1b), cleaved in sheets thinner than 30 nm for the TEM investigations, shows the typical arrangement of a nearly perfect stacking order and varying degrees of rotational disorder (i.e. artificial single crystals). The STM image (Fig. 1c) demonstrates the high degree of order in HOPG with atomic resolution.

The Common as Body Without Organs

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Vidar Thorsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Social Factory ◽  
The Common

The paper explores the relation of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work to that of Deleuze and Guattari. The main focus is on Hardt and Negri's concept of ‘the common’ as developed in their most recent book Commonwealth. It is argued that the common can complement what Nicholas Thoburn terms the ‘minor’ characteristics of Deleuze's political thinking while also surpassing certain limitations posed by Hardt and Negri's own previous emphasis on ‘autonomy-in-production’. With reference to Marx's notion of real subsumption and early workerism's social-factory thesis, the discussion circles around showing how a distinction between capital and the common can provide a basis for what Alberto Toscano calls ‘antagonistic separation’ from capital in a more effective way than can the classical capital–labour distinction. To this end, it is demonstrated how the common might benefit from being understood in light of Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual apparatus, with reference primarily to the ‘body without organs’ of Anti-Oedipus. It is argued that the common as body without organs, now understood as constituting its own ‘social production’ separate from the BwO of capital, can provide a new basis for antagonistic separation from capital. Of fundamental importance is how the common potentially invents a novel regime of qualitative valorisation, distinct from capital's limitation to quantity and scarcity.

Conclusion: What is Speculative Empiricism?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Debaise
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
System P ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

Process and Reality ends with a warning: ‘[t]he chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence’ (PR, 337). Although this danger of narrowness might emerge from the ‘idiosyncrasies and timidities of particular authors, of particular social groups, of particular schools of thought, of particular epochs in the history of civilization’ (PR, 337), we should not be mistaken: it occurs within philosophy, in its activity, its method. And the fact that this issue arises at the end of Process and Reality reveals the ambition that has accompanied its composition: Whitehead has resisted this danger through the form and ambition of his speculative construction. The temptation of a narrowness in selection attempts to expel speculative philosophy at the same time as it haunts each part of its system.

Family Concerns inThe Vampire Diaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Antonio Sanna
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Familial Relationships ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
Television Medium ◽  
Precious Stones

This paper examines the TV series The Vampire Diaries to show how the programme responds to traditional gothic tropes and transforms them for the television medium. Vampires and humans shall be read as both preoccupied with the ties of family, in story arcs that explore complex and often dark familial relationships. Especially in the early seasons of the series, objects such as magic rings, compasses, precious stones and magical devices are given fundamental importance for the development of the plot, the interactions among the characters, and the representation of familial bonds. Specifically, the search for and retrieval of the heirlooms shall be interpreted as instrumental to the representation of the characters’ relationships with their respective families, which I argue is a characteristic theme of gothic fictions at large.

The Skeptic and The Madman: The Proto‐Pragmatism of Thomas Reid

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Lundestad
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thomas Reid ◽  
Other Hand

Even though the philosophy of common sense is not justifi able as such, the assump- tion upon which it rests, namely that there are things which we are not in position to doubt is correct. The reason why Thomas Reid was unable to bring this assumption out in a justifi able manner is that his views, both on knowledge and nature, are to be considered dogmatic. American pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey on the other hand, may be seen as offering us a ‘critical’ and post-Darwinian philosophy of common sense.

SEJARAH KONFLIK KEBANGKITAN ISLAM DI MINANGKABAU: Sebuah Tinjauan Awal Terhadap Proses Kemunculannya

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Ihsan Sanusi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Correct Understanding

This article in principle wants to examine the history of the emergence of the conflict of Islamic revival in Minangkabau starting from the Paderi Movement to the Youth in Minangkabau. Especially in the initial period, namely the Padri movement, there was a tragedy of violence (radicalism) that accompanied it. This study becomes important, because after all the reformation of Islam began to be realized by reforming human life in the world. Both in terms of thought with the effort to restore the correct understanding of religion as it should, from the side of the practice of religion, namely by reforming deviant practices and adapted to the instructions of the religious texts (al-Qur'an and sunnah), and also from the side of strengthening power religion. In this case the research will be directed to the efforts of renewal by the Padri to the Youth towards the Islamic community in Minangkabau. To discuss this problem used historical research methods. Through this method, it is tested and analyzed critically the records and relics of the past. In analyzing the data in this research basically used approach or interactive analysis model by Miles and Huberman. In this analysis model, the three components of the analysis are data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing or verification, the activity is carried out in an interactive form with the process of collecting data as a process that continues, repeats, and continues to form acycle.

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