5. Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V)

  1. Robert Schwartz

Published Online: 16 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118253687.ch5

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Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy

Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy

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Schwartz, R. (2012) Ontological Commitment and the Nature of the Real (Lecture V), in Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118253687.ch5

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 16 JUL 2012
  2. Published Print: 17 FEB 2012

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Print ISBN: 9780470674697

Online ISBN: 9781118253687

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Keywords:

  • Lecture V, ontological commitment and the nature of the real;
  • unconstrained relativism, as unwelcome intrusions in empirical inquiry;
  • pluralism initial default position, none the worse for being the final;
  • science as not static, expanding/contracting along the unpredictable;
  • common sense concepts, constant use entrenching it in language;
  • James, on finding out as conceptual slicing, dicing, mixing, uniting;
  • James's empiricism, useful discourse be grounded in experience;
  • James's on the One/many, common sense and science working together;
  • goal of science, organizing experience in ways for prediction;
  • Dewey on the “real,” common sense and atomic physics, both useful
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