Essays on Pragmatism

Passion refers to something which drives you, something that completes you, something that satisfies you. Passion is what you have always dreamt of being, that which you work hard to achieve. Passion plays a very significant role when it comes to pursuing and choosing a...

The most dominant and distinctive school of philosophy in the United States is pragmatism. This philosophical tradition emerged from the late 1800s with inputs from Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), William James (1842-1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952). Very broadly, pragmatism helps us comprehend that knowing is...

Inequality has many classifications, and these classifications exist everywhere – for example, racial inequality in an election, gender inequality in the workplace and many other inequalities. Pragmatism is a theory that uses experience and knowledge to get ideal results, but in many situations, the dominant...

One of the most important schools of philosophy of education is pragmatism. Pragmatism stands between idealism and materialism a sort of compromise. Its origin can be traced from the Sophist philosophers of ancient Greece who held that man is the measure of all things. The...

John Dewey was a major proponent of a US school of thought called pragmatism, which opposed modern-day dualistic epistemology & metaphysics for a naturalistic approach which regarded knowledge as a result of the active adaptation of the humans to its environment. John Dewey is probably...

In this essay, we are going to examine William James’s understanding and hopes for philosophy. James argues that philosophy must have a pragmatic purpose, that helps us live good lives. We will start by evaluating James’ meta-philosophy as well as his concerns with philosophy, then...