Browsing by Subject "William James"

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    Pragmatism
    (Springer - Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-14) Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme; Filosofía
    Pragmatism is a school of thought popularized in the beginning of the twentieth century by American psychologist and philosopher William James. Although most widely known (and criticized) for its theory of truth, pragmatism is a far broader position, connecting to issues in psychology, education, ethics, religion, and politics. This entry gives an overview of pragmatism particularly as developed by James. It begins by describing pragmatism’s historical development and presenting the pragmatist contribution to philosophical debates about truth. From this, the entry moves to discussing pragmatism’s broader significance, and it does so by highlighting how pragmatism’s emphasis on practical effects relates to cognitive and existential possibilities: Our habits both limit and enable the range of behaviors available to us, but they can also be worked on so as to bring us closer to better possibilities, including possibilities for our own personal development and for making life more meaningful, as well as possibilities for how we approach life in society.
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    The Face in Flight: Andy Warhol’s Henry Geldzahler
    (Michigan Press, 2018) Suárez, Juan A.; Filología Inglesa
    Existing analyses of Andy Warhol's Henry Geldzahler (1964) interpret it as a psychological portrait that reveals its subject's interiority. This article, by contrast, refutes such claims of psychological depth. Through a close analysis of the film's surface and of Geldzahler's performance, it reads the work in terms of parody, play with props and materials, and queer affect. It illuminates its peculiar nonpsychologizing portraiture through William James's theses about transitional mental states and the continuity of the psychic and the material. It concludes with a reconsideration of Warhol's film portraits in light of these ideas.