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Pragmatism - A truly American philosophy (2016x34)

Air date: Oct 02, 2016

Philosophy can be more than wishy-washy flim-flam. It can be practical. The United States is normally not considered the birthplace of philosophical ideas, but leave it to America to come up with one of the most productive philosophical schools ever created. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/eEGSDijpq4o related: https://youtu.be/7rZ0dAaW19M ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Menand, Louis. Pragmatism: A Reader. New York: Random House Publishing, 1997. https://amzn.to/2LwjnQU Cobley, Paul and Litza Jansz. Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide. Malta: Gutenberg Press, 1997. https://amzn.to/2uCNaOr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thorndike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rorty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ----------------------------------------- Wiki: Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.[1] Charles Sanders Peirce, generally considered to be its founder, later described it in his pragmatic maxim: Consider