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Emerson’s Process Philosophy

Jeff Carreira July 15, 2010Philosophy

The American Pragmatists outlined in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a profound evolutionary process philosophy. The view of reality  they explored was one in which all of reality was seen as an unending …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

Spiritual Realism and Process Philosophy

Jeff Carreira June 17, 2010Philosophy

As I have read through Emerson’s writing I see two aspects to his metaphysics. On the one hand he describes a spiritual Realism in which the collective human soul of humanity exists in a transcendent …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonRomanticismWilliam James

The Holistic Vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff Carreira June 2, 2010Philosophy

I  am sorry that I missed a post this week due to travel, but I am excited to share more from Ralph Waldo Emerson. As we understand more how Emerson’s thought developed we see the …

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Charles Sanders PeircePragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalismWilliam James

Belief and Fact

Jeff Carreira May 20, 2010Philosophy

The worst speculative Skeptic ever I knew, was a much better Man than the best superstitious Devotee & Bigot.  —David Hume (Letter to Gilbert Elliot of Minto, March 10, 1751) Before I go on to …

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The Conscious Evolution of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Part 1

Jeff Carreira May 13, 2010Philosophy

The influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on the future trajectory of American philosophy probably cannot be over-estimated. He held a metaphysical vision of an evolving universe. His idealism with its dualistic character would be largely …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

Consciousness is not a “stuff”

Jeff Carreira April 23, 2010Philosophy

I pulled two quotes from Chuck to respond to. We may be the “conscious part of the universe” (possibly not the *only* conscious part – life on other planets?) but that doesn’t inexorably lead to …

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William James

The Experience Train of William James: Part 2

Jeff Carreira April 5, 2010Philosophy

As James developed his philosophy of Radical Empiricism that philosophy rested on the idea that reality is made up of “pure experience.” It was a philosophy of subjectivity and with it he was able to …

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Creative FlowWilliam James

The Experience Train of William James: Part 1

Jeff Carreira March 30, 2010Philosophy

I seem to gain the best insight into the ideas of William James when I start by going back to some of his original work in psychology when he was formulating his unique ideas about …

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William James

Truth, Knowing and Human Activity according to William James

Jeff Carreira February 21, 2010Philosophy

William James tied the expereince of knowing directly to human activity. His version of Pragmatism was largely based on this “integral” (if I may use the term so loosely) connection between mind and matter. In …

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William James

Plato, Aristotle and William James

Jeff Carreira February 15, 2010Philosophy

Before continuing to examine the ideas of William James lets look at the origins of metaphysical dualisms in Western thought by comparing the two big thinkers of ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle. Plato was in …

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AristotlePlatoWilliam James

The Self-consciousness flow of William James

Jeff Carreira February 11, 2010Philosophy

To understand the thinking of William James I have tried to see the world as I believe he saw it – as one continuous unfolding flow. In my own contemplation of James I have followed …

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PragmatismRadical EmpiricismWilliam James

Cosmos, Consciousness and Culture

Jeff Carreira January 27, 2010Philosophy

It was almost exactly one year ago today that I started this blog so I guess this is my first anniversary post. I started the blog because I wanted to explore the relationship between classical …

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American PhilosophyCharles Sanders PeirceIntegral TheoryJohn DeweyPragmatismWilliam James

John Dewey and Cultural Evolution

Jeff Carreira January 24, 2010Philosophy

What I see in John Dewey’s Instrumentalism is a compelling theory of how the evolution of culture can be consciously guided. Dewey’s ideas about directing the further development of culture rest squarely on his understanding of objects …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyPragmatismWilliam James

Rational Mechanics and the Mind

Jeff Carreira January 16, 2010Philosophy

I want to post one more time before getting back to a few last words on John Dewey and conscious evolution. I have been doing a little research into the development of modern physics because …

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B. F. SkinnerIsaac NewtonJoseph-Louis LagrangePierre-Simon LaplaceWilliam James

Does anything like a mind exist?

Jeff Carreira January 12, 2010Philosophy

I still have a few more posts on Dewey that I want to put up that lead to an exciting model of cultural evolution, but Carl’s comment to my last post inspired me to write …

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B. F. SkinnerEdward Lee ThorndikeWilliam James

Riding the Currents on the Ocean of Mind

Jeff Carreira January 9, 2010Philosophy

I can describe the beautiful image that built in my mind as I read John Dewey’s book “Experience and Nature” by describing a vision of reality as currents in the ocean of mind. Think of …

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Embracing Constant Flux

Jeff Carreira January 4, 2010Philosophy

I am on a roll with John Dewey. I was reading through his book “Experience and Nature” for the second time and something finally clicked and I started to see what he was getting at. …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyPragmatismWilliam James

John Dewey and the “ends” of the Universe

Jeff Carreira January 2, 2010Philosophy

The third of the founding American Pragmatists was John Dewey. In the early 1870’s while Charles Sanders Peirce and William James were busy brewing the original conceptions of what would become Pragmatism; John Dewey was …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyPragmatismWilliam James

Scientific Fundamentalism

Jeff Carreira November 27, 2009Philosophy

To finish (at least for the time being) with this idea of Scientism vs. Science. I want to take it a little further so that I hope I am able to make clear what I …

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Chauncey WrightPragmatismScienceWilliam James

Commitment and Reality: From Kant to Peirce

Jeff Carreira November 6, 2009Philosophy

There was more implied in Kant’s theory of knowledge than the fact that what we see is not an objective world in itself, but rather a picture that is created by us based on sense …

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