“O que entende você por pragmatismo?”: alguns confrontos entre os pragmatismos de C. S. Peirce e W. James

• Autor(a) principal: Pozzoli, Vanessa Luciano
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19579
• topic: Filosofia americana; Pragmatismo; Pragmaticismo; American Philosophy; Pragmatism; Pragmaticism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

“You and Schiller carry Pragmatism too far for me” (CP 8.258). Thus, quite frankly, after asking the question of this lecture’s title (What do you understand by it [pragmatism]? (CP 8.253)), Peirce had expressed himself in one of the letters he wrote to William James in 1904. As already known, Pragmatism did not maintain a unity of interpretation among its theorists; on the contrary, it gave rise to a several nuances of thoughts, between them, that of Charles S. Peirce and William James, maybe the pragmatic philosophies most known. However, are these differences as big as we are used to say? What does each one mean by Pragmatism? What is the role of this theory in the conceptual universe of each author? Why does Peirce believe that James “carry Pragmatism too far”, as mentioned above? Where do they differ? To answer these questions, we propose the reader a diving in Peirce’s and James’ philosophies, selecting those aspects that we judge more relevant to this search. To this objective, we will follow a structure divided into three moments: the first will situate historically the term “pragmatism”; the second will show how Peirce and James conceive the notion of pragmatism; and, finally, taking into consideration the particularities of each, the last one will delineate some of the possible points of convergence and divergence between both conceptions