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The Transformation of the Present Moment

Jeff Carreira May 24, 2012Philosophy

Generally we assume that the world just exists – sitting there dead and meaningless – the object of our perceptions. The world doesn’t just exist – it shows up. It presents itself to us through …

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Alfred North WhiteheadGeorge Herbert MeadWilliam James

Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2011Philosophy

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

American Common Sense – or – How to Change the Truth

Jeff Carreira October 27, 2011Philosophy

The American mind has been constructed on a few obvious attitudes and assumptions about life. One is a pronounced idealistic streak. The Europeans that settled in this land believed that they were creating a new world …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn Dewey

Is a Dog Really a Dog?

Jeff Carreira October 20, 2011Philosophy

One of the great philosophical dividing lines has always been the line that separates the particular from the universal – the unique from the general.  We live in a world of both particulars and universals …

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George Herbert MeadJohn Dewey

The Objective Reality of Language

Jeff Carreira October 13, 2011Philosophy

We live in a universe of discourse – a flowing ever-adjusting transfer of information. If you want to see the world the way that George Herbert Mead and the other American Pragmatists saw it you …

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Learning to be a Self

Jeff Carreira October 6, 2011Philosophy

George Herbert Mead said a self is a subject that is an object to itself. A subject is a perceiving thing and a self is a perceiving thing that can perceive itself.  Human beings are …

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Into The Human Flow

Jeff Carreira September 29, 2011Philosophy

I am currently completely captivated by the image of a Human Flow. The American Pragmatist philosophers developed a view of humanity as a constant flow of activity and society was a flow of flows. There …

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George Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Mead, Mind and World

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2011Philosophy

George Herbert Mead is the fourth major figure in Classical American Pragmatism. Mead studied philosophy at Harvard while William James chaired the department. He taught with John Dewey at the University of Michigan before they …

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