The Later Putnam’s Revitalization of Jamesian Pragmatism
This paper explores the later Putnam’s strong defense of numerous creative views in Jamesian philosophy. Although in the 1950s and 1960s, pragmatist tradition was shortly silent at a time, it still has a very solid philosophical foundation in contemporary social thought. In the later Putnam’s eyes,...
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
2025
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | This paper explores the later Putnam’s strong defense of numerous creative views in Jamesian philosophy. Although in the 1950s and 1960s, pragmatist tradition was shortly silent at a time, it still has a very solid philosophical foundation in contemporary social thought. In the later Putnam’s eyes, many philosophers of the same generation as James, however, underestimates or even despises James’s achievements in philosophy seriously. What he has to do is to rectify James’s fame and re-establish the important role that James plays in the movement of American pragmatism. This paper mainly inquires the later Putnam’s revitalization on Jamesian pragmatism in his later philosophy from three aspects: (1) James’s Pragmatic Theory of Truth; (2) four kinds of strains and two kinds of truths in James’s mind; and (3) James’s natural realism of common sense. As for the later Putnam, the key elements of classical pragmatism, especially James’s radical empiricism, provide a significant theoretical framework for the most progressive and forward-looking views in contemporary philosophy. He places classical pragmatism in the discussion of contemporary world philosophy, and personally participates in it as a James-style natural realist, which has rejuvenated traditional pragmatic philosophy. |
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