Pragmatism

Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Once relatively neglected in the pantheon of American philosophy, C. I. Lewis’s work is...

General call for papers, reviews, and translations related to pragmatism

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy cordially invites the submission of papers and proposals for its 43rd annual meeting, to be held in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the...

Guest Editors: Roberto Gronda and Tullio Viola

Since its birth, pragmatism has held a more intimate relation to the empirical study of the past than almost any other philosophical school....

Symposia. The Pragmatist Method: New Challenge for the Social and Human Sciences

Working from Bateson's interest in "patterns which connect," the pre-conference theme interrogates Bateson's relevance to contemporary philosophy of communication. These connections could include...

The Center for Pragmatism Studies (CPS) of PUC-SP, is now calling for submissions of abstracts for the 16th International Meeting on Pragmatism, to be held at the Pontifical Catholic University of...

[Pragmatism] is no doctrine of the truth of things; it is only a method of finding out the meanings of hard words and hard concepts (for concepts are mental signs;) and this method is, in essence...

This paper takes indexicality as a case-study for critical examination of the distinction between semantics and pragmatics as currently conceived in mainstream philosophy of language. Both a ‘pre-...

A summer school on pragmatism and the social sciences organised by Pragmata

Peirce stresses that the pragmatist qua pragmatist must embrace realism as opposed to nominalism. He offers as well “proofs” of realism which are open to various criticisms. Within the framework...

The first event of the Pragmatism in Nottingham Conference Series

• Mark Jago (Nottingham): Pragmatism and the Impossible
• Nils Kurbis (Birkbeck): No! Denial as a pragmatic...

Speakers:

• Albert Atkin (Macquarie University) – “Intellectual Hope as Convenient Fiction”
• Shannon Dea (University of Warerloo) – “Hookway and the Rule of Reason”
• ...

Issue 2 of volume 6 is now available

Keynote speaker:

• Mark Johnson (University of Oregon)

Invited speakers:

• Anthony Chemero (University of Cincinatti)
...

There is a logical doctrine called Pragmatism. It is the doctrine that what any word or thought means consists in what it can contribute to an expectation...