{"id":8803,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pragmatism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:41","slug":"pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pragmatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An approach to meaning first proposed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/peirce\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/peirce\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles S. Peirce&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;1839-1914) in 1878. &nbsp;He was concerned with the meaning of concepts, in particular scientific ones that affect the mind and not with those confined to the emotions or the senses. Peirce held that the meaning of such concepts was exhausted by the effects they have on our experiences and actions. The term was appropriated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/william-james\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/william-james?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William James&nbsp;<\/a>(1842-1906) and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/john%20dewey\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/John Dewey?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Dewey<\/a>&nbsp;(1859-1952) who in their own ways attempted to make pragmatism a theory of truth. &nbsp;When this happened, Peirce coined the term pragmaticism to indicate his own brand of pragmatism.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"concept\">Concept<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_epistemology\">Developmental epistemology<\/a>, <a href=\"experience\">Experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An approach to meaning first proposed by&nbsp;Charles S. Peirce&nbsp;&nbsp;1839-1914) in 1878. &nbsp;He was concerned with the meaning of concepts, in particular scientific ones that affect the mind and not with those confined to the emotions or the senses. Peirce held that the meaning of such concepts was exhausted by the effects they have on our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pragmatism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pragmatism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}