Critics of Pragmatism?

Question

Pragmatism is a pretty (very?) broad school. So criticism of it runs the risk of trying to cover too big a ground. I'm looking at Pragmatism and would be very interested in any references that point to a good old attack on it.

Anyone know of any?

Answer 1

Pragmatism is several schools of pragmatism and neo-pragmatism, just as the criticisms are in different schools. Here's some cool stuff:

Two Christian critiques of pragmatism from different angles are Gordon Clark's monograph on John Dewey (recently reissued with his monograph on William James by the Trinity Foundation), and Philip E. Devine's Relativism, Nihilism, and God (Notre Dame, 1989). The Fall 2001 issue of The Hedgehog Review provides several recent articles on the state of pragmatism today and includes a helpful annotated bibliography. Following are brief descriptions of the main articles in the issue.

Check out the source for more. Good luck and happy new year!

Answer 2

I specific as hell do not help 'pragmatism'. i be attentive to what which means in DC -- advertising out to the specific hobbies of the two aspects to bypass something in any respect, and sticking tax payers with the bill. word that each Rep takes an oath to take care of the form from all enemies distant places and kinfolk. Nowhere does it say 'from all enemies distant places and kinfolk different than CONGRESS'. What which means is that there is a shrink to action, and that they are meant to ascertain they don't go it. They ignore approximately it on each occasion they experience that is 'pragmatic' and you call numerous of the circumstances the place they have ignored it. The scientific insurance mandate is yet another. As are the patriot act, fisa, the cybersecurity rules coming down the pike, and so on.

Answer 3

It is certainly not a universal community of like minded if it were so there would not be such a scattering it is more like an island of knowledge floating atop water all connected yet not one and the same.

Answer 4

See Geoffrey Gadd's seminal work, "The Death of Effect."

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

'Some pragmatists disagree with the view that beliefs represent reality, and instead argue that beliefs are dispositions which qualify as true or false depending on how helpful a disposition proves in accomplishing the believer's goals. For this type of pragmatist it is only in the struggle of intelligent organisms with the surrounding environment that theories acquire meaning, and only with a theory's success in this struggle that it becomes true.'

You could argue rationally that mankind is fatally imperfect in respect to his/her ability to acquire a truth for anything, but that proposition would contradict the rationalism of Rene' Descartes.

Essentially you would need to argue that man in essence is divided against himself and therefore incapable of continuous self conscious reasoning. If you are arguing against teleology in support for a rational deontological philosophy, then you may need to study these:

'§ 1595

The more the teleological principle was linked with the concept of an extramundane intelligence and to that extent was favoured by piety, the more it seemed to depart from the true investigation of nature, which aims at cognising the properties of nature not as extraneous, but as immanent determinatenesses and accepts only such cognition as a valid comprehension.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hlteleol.htm#HL3_735
101. In the Final Cause, that which is mediated, or the Inference, is at the same time immediate, first, and ground. The Produced, or that which is posited through mediation, has the act of producing and its immediate determination for presupposition, and conversely the act of producing happens on account of the result which is the ground, and hence is the first determination of the activity. The teleological act is a syllogism in which the same whole is brought into unity (its objective form with its subjective form, the comprehension with its reality) through the mediation of teleological activity, and the Comprehension is ground of a reality determined through it. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_logic.htm#101

'Teleological observations on things often proceed from a well-meant wish to display the wisdom of God as it is especially revealed in nature. Now in thus trying to discover final causes for which the things serve as means, we must remember that we are stopping short at the finite, and are liable to fall into trifling reflections: as, for instance, if we not merely studied the vine in respect of its well-known use for man, but proceeded to consider the cork-tree in connection with the corks which are cut from its bark to put into the wine-bottles. Whole books used to be written in this spirit. It is easy to see that they promoted the genuine interest neither of religion nor of science. External design stands immediately in front of the idea: but what thus stands on the threshold often for that reason is least adequate.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slobject.htm#SL205n_1

Deontology:

'Act only according to that maxim by which you can also will that it would become a universal law.
Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Act as though you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends. '

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology

"In ethics, deontological ethics or deontology (Greek: Deon meaning obligation or duty) is a theory holding that decisions should be made solely or primarily by considering one's duties and the rights of others."

Answer 6

the modern philosophy guide

Answer 7

i think one way is to make some form of art or something