Pragmatism

sensible or “relevant” to the environment or “context” is what an individual will focus on. Although that factor may have many aspects to it, one would only deem those relevant to his or her specific context as worthy to examine. Turkle’s notion of “pragmatism” can be applied to Nelson’s ideas on how we spectate. Humans live in a world where they are passively scrolling through images. Nelson describes this state as “Web surfing, which consists of rapid image flow, the distillation of long,…

Sanders Peirce and William James. One outstanding similarity between these two authors is that they both promoted the philosophy of Pragmatism. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines pragmatism as: “A reasonable and logical way of doing things or of thinking about problems that is based on dealing with specific situations instead of on ideas and theories”. The core of pragmatism is what is known as the pragmatist maxim. This is essentially a rule for generating hypotheses (Hookway, 2012). Both…

choice of research methodology, the researchers first have to choose one of the research paradigms like positivism, interpretivism, and pragmatism. Every research approach must follow the way of investigation such as epistemology, ontology, and axiology (Maxwell, 2005) as the essence of research philosophy. Therefore, I would like to follow the viewpoint of pragmatism as my research approach that should overcome some disadvantageous position of positivism and interpretivism, discussed below-…

One of the four stages of U.S psychology is moral and mental philosophy. In that stage it talk about psychological studies and how it was taught in the combination with the religious indoctrination. Also, in that stage the American enlightenment was taking place by a man name Locke, he worked hard on the topics of nature of consciousness. Locke talks about child psychology and nature of the perception and knowledge. Locke’s psychology formed the basis of psychology in the favors of individual’s…

The key to understanding why the ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals is more convincing lies in understanding textualism and its various shortcomings. As stated above textualism is a school of statutory interpretation that focuses heavily on analysing the actual text of the statute. To go deeper, textualism utilizes what is called the “plain meaning rule.” Under the plain meaning rule, if the words of a statue are clear and unambiguous, then other factors (like legislative intent,…

in the idea of human creativity as fundamental to human problem solving. His thinking borrows heavily from that of Meade and John Dewey, with variations of their thoughts filtering into his own unique perspective as outlined in his text Social Pragmatism. For instance, Joas affirms numerous elements of Mead’s theory including the idea of the “I” and the “me”, the use of significant symbols in human communication. He also cites John Dewey’s theory of art and the aesthetic dimension of human…

doing rather than hearing. Many of early childhood learning centers have adapted the concept of hands on learning over the years, which goes along with the famous practice of John Dewey. He is also known for his association with the philosophy of pragmatism which takes on a practical approach where the purpose of thinking is to guide action, and that truth should be tested by the sensible outcome of knowledge. The work of John Dewey greatly influenced the field of early education. This paper…

architect can draw upon that helped them to achieve different types of results in their design, such as constructivism, de-constructivism, critical regionalism and many more. There are a number of architectural projects that are based on the concept of pragmatism. The key element in a pragmatic approach to architecture is function; the pragmatist perspective to design approach can be linked to both practical and theoretical level. On the practical level, the concept of a pragmatic approach can…

In the article Twelve Characteristics of Effective Early Childhood Teachers by Laura Colker (2008), the twelve characteristics consist of passion, perseverance, “willing to take risks”, pragmatism, patience, flexibility, respect, creativity, authenticity, “love of learning”, high energy, and “sense of humor” (Colker, 2008). Personally, I feel that they all tie together and I can see all of these characteristics found in an effective early childhood education teacher. For instance, an educator…

his younger brother Henry james ended up becoming a novelist and writer. Portrait of James. His philosophies and conclusions Jame speculated that thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering all help us survive as species. His theories include Pragmatism,FUnctionalism, and James- Lange Theory of Emotion. His influences All of his writings and theories are still influential and relevant today. His classic textbook “The Principles of Psychology” (1890) is still relevant today and is still…