Potentiality and Actuality in Peirce and Dewey

This paper fills a gap in the literature concerning the importance of the categories of potentiality and actuality in the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce and Dewey derived their positions by revising Aristotle. Their revisions are surprisingly similar in many aspects an...

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Auteur principal: Garrison, Jim
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2024
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This paper fills a gap in the literature concerning the importance of the categories of potentiality and actuality in the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce and Dewey derived their positions by revising Aristotle. Their revisions are surprisingly similar in many aspects and different in at least one significant feature – haecceity. Peirce and Dewey’s pragmatic reconstruction of actuality and potentiality is perhaps the most important advance since the Scholastics. The goal is to recover the categories of potentiality and actuality for the future development of pragmatism.