Philosophical Sites to Visit
My photo taken at The Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Philosophers Songs
This is my You Tube folder for Philosophy Songs.....I will be adding more in the future....This one is also list below on my BLOG...
The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song is a riot.....a reasonable one, of course, please check it out you will like it....
The Big Lebowski - Parking / Nihilists scene
NIHILISM is a philosophical position in which the nihilists claim that there are NO VALUES in the world.....Walter takes care of them, but Donny dies!!!! Check it out!!!
The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song
Check out this very funny love song composed of the names of philosophers and accompanied on guitar....you will enjoy it
Arguably America's Most Brilliant Thinker:
Teacher of John Dewey, close friend of William James, acknowledged originator of the pragmatic theory of meaning....Charles S. Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839—1914)
C.S. Peirce was a scientist and philosopher best known as the earliest proponent of pragmatism. An influential thinker and polymath, Peirce is among the greatest of American minds. His thought was a seminal influence upon William James, his life long friend, and upon John Dewey, his one time student. James and Dewey went on to popularize pragmatism thereby achieving what Peirce’s inability to gain lasting academic employment prevented him from doing.
Pragmatism takes the meaning of a concept to depend upon its practical bearings. The upshot of this maxim is that a concept is meaningless if it has no practical or experiential effect on the way we conduct our lives or inquiries. Similarly, within Peirce’s theory of inquiry, the scientific method is the only means through which to fix belief, eradicate doubt and progress towards a final steady state of knowledge.
Although Peirce applied scientific principles to philosophy, his understanding and admiration of Kant also colored his work. Peirce was analytic and scientific, devoted to logical and scientific rigor, and an architectonic philosopher in the mold of Kant or Aristotle. His best-known theories, pragmatism and the account of inquiry, are both scientific and experimental but form part of a broad architectonic scheme. Long considered an eccentric figure whose contribution to pragmatism was to provide its name and whose importance was as an influence upon James and Dewey, Peirce’s significance in his own right is now largely accepted.
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