Pragmatism

Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme

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Pragmatism

dc.contributor.author	Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-23T12:49:47Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-23T12:49:47Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
dc.date.issued	2022-04-14
dc.description.abstract	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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dc.identifier.citation	Sanches de Oliveira, G. (2022). Pragmatism. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_241-1
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_241-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-3-319-98390-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/210881
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer - Palgrave Macmillan
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.relation.ispartof	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Ed.: Springer - Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1341-1349
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_241-1
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dc.subject	American pragmatism
dc.subject	William James
dc.subject	Practical effects
dc.subject	Truth
dc.subject	Development
dc.subject	Habit
dc.subject	Cognition
dc.subject	Meaning
dc.subject	Pluralism
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Pragmatism
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