A philosophy of culture: The scope of holistic pragmatism

A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism

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1. W. V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 1953), p. 46
2. originally published in Philosophical Review 60 (January 1951)
3. J. S. Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto, 1973), book I, chap. 6, sec. 5 (1:116 n. 62).
4. "Experiment and Necessity in Dewey's Philosophy," in my Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History (New York, 1973), pp. 138-54.
5. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Cambridge, Mass., 1985), pp. 13, 269.
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10. Gerald E. Myers, William James. His Life and Thought (New Haven, 1986), p. 564.
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12. A. J. Ayer, The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James (London, 1968), pp. 201-12.
13. See my Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (New York, 1972), chap. 8.
14. William James, Pragmatism, [ed. Fredson Bowers and Ignas K. Skrupskelis] (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), pp. 100-101.
15. "Biography of John Dewey," ed. Jane M. Dewey, in The Philosophy of John Dewey, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp (Evanston, Ill., 1939), pp. 17-18.
16. Morton White, Social Thought in America: The Revolt against Formalism (New York, 1949; paperback edition with new foreword, New York, 1976)
17. John Dewey, Art as Experience (New York, 1934), p. 19. This edition is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text.
18. See "Experiment and Necessity in Dewey's Philosophy" in my Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History (New York, 1973), pp. 138- 54
19. see also my Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (New York, 1972), chap. 11.
20. John Dewey, Philosophy and Civilization (New York, 1931), p. 129.
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24. Sidney Hook, John Dewey. An Intellectual Portrait (New York, 1939), p. 202.
25. The theme of this discussion was first developed in "Pragmatism and the Scope of Science," which appears in my Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History (New York, 1973), pp. 95-109.
26. See ArthurW. Burks's introduction to the selection from the writings of C. S. Peirce in Classic American Philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead: Selections from Their Writings, ed. Max H. Fisch (New York, 1951), esp. p. 52.
27. Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 5, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism, ed. Charles Harshorne and Paul Weiss (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), para. 377.
28. Clarence Irving Lewis, An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (La Salle, Ill., 1946), p. 512.
29. W. B. Gallie, Peirce and Pragmatism (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1952), p. 161.
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32. John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (New York, 1938), p. 256.
33. Pierre Duhem, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, trans. Philip P.Wiener (Princeton, 1954), p. 183. This edition is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text.
34. Bertrand Russell, Philosophical Essays (London, 1910), pp. 104-5.
35. See Morton White, ed., "A Philosophical Letter of Alfred Tarski," Journal of Philosophy 84 (1987): 28-32
36. Tarski remarks in this letter of 1944 that his willingness to reject a logical axiom is a psychological matter. And in The Pursuit of Truth (Cambridge, Mass., 1990), p. 19
37. Rudolf Carnap, Philosophy and Logical Syntax (London, 1935), pp. 35, 9-10.
38. See W. V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 1953), pp. 20-46
39. G. E. Moore, "A Reply to My Critics," in The Philosophy of G. E. Moore, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp (Evanston, Ill., 1942), p. 667.
40. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford, 1978), secs. 19, 23 (pp. 8, 11).
41. David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. CharlesW. Hendel (Indianapolis, 1955), sec. XII, part III (p. 173).
42. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford, 1888), book I, part III, sec. I (p. 70).
43. D.G.C. MacNabb, "David Hume," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards (New York, 1967), 4:79.
44. Hume, Treatise, book I, part III, sec. XIV (p. 166).
45. See my paper "The Psychologism of Hume and Quine Compared," in Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, ed. M. D. Gedney, Philosophy Documentation Center (Bowling Green, Ky., 2000), 7:151-59.
46. J. S. Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto, 1973), book II, chap. 7, sec. 5 (1:277).
47. Bertrand Russell, Philosophical Essays (London, 1910), p. 104.
48. Morton White, ed., "A Philosophical Letter of Alfred Tarski," Journal of Philosophy 84 (1987): 31.
49. W. V. Quine's. "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," originally published in Philosophical Review 51 (January 1951), is reprinted in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 1953), pp. 20-46.
50. William James, Pragmatism, [ed. Fredson Bowers and Ignas K. Skrupskelis] (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), pp. 34-35.
51. Tarski, "Philosophical Letter," p. 31.
52. LudwigWittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. C. K. Ogden (London, 1933), 4.111, 4.1121 (pp. 75-77).
53. Mill, Logic, book I, chap. 6, secs. 2, 4 (1:111, 116).
54. See Nelson Goodman,W. V. Quine, Morton White, "A Triangular Correspondence in 1947," appendix to A Philosopher's Story, by Morton White (University Park, Pa., 1999), pp. 337-57.
55. C. G. Hempel, "The Function of General Laws in History," Journal of Philosophy 39 (1942): 35-48
56. Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (London, 1945), 2:chap. 25, sec. 2.
57. W. V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 1953), p. 20.
58. Isaiah Berlin, Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (New York, 1976), p. 68.
59. Pieter Geyl, "Toynbee's System of Civilizations," in Toynbee and History: Critical Essays and Reviews, ed. M. F. Ashley Montagu (Boston, 1956), pp. 46-47.
60. See Morton White, Foundations of Historical Knowledge (New York, 1965), esp. chaps. 2, 3, and 4. Throughout this chapter I have drawn freely on what I have said in that earlier work, and I have also tried to improve what I said there.
61. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (Oxford, 1948), p. 215.
62. David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. CharlesW. Hendel (Indianapolis, 1955), sec. VIII, part I (p. 100).
63. This statement occurs in a paragraph that appears only in the last corrected edition of 1777, sometimes referred to as "Edition O"
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65. J. S. Mill, System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto, 1973), book III, chap. 5, sec. 3 (1:332).
66. Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade, trans. Frank D. Halsey (Princeton, 1939), pp. 24-25.
67. Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere (New York, 1893), p. 27.
68. Samuel Eliot Morison, By Land and By Sea: Essays and Addresses (New York, 1953), pp. 356-57.
69. H. R. Trevor-Roper, review of the Earl of Birkenhead's The Professor and the Prime Minister, New York Times Book Review, February 25, 1962, p. 3.
70. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed, [trans. Constance Garnett], Everyman ed. (New York, 1931), 1:114-16.
71. William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York, 1890), 2:333
72. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays (New York, 1900), 1:244-45
73. William L. Langer, "The Next Assignment," American Historical Review 63 (1958): 298.
74. G. E. Moore, International Journal of Ethics 17 (1906-07): 248.
75. Nelson Goodman,W. V. Quine, Morton White, "A Triangular Correspondence in 1947," appendix to A Philosopher's Story, by Morton White (University Park, Pa., 1999), pp. 337-57
76. Nelson Goodman, "On Likeness of Meaning" (1949), in Problems and Projects (New York, 1972), pp. 221-30.
77. John Dewey, Art as Experience (New York, 1934), p. 106.
78. Nelson Goodman, "Art and Inquiry," in Problems and Projects, pp. 103-19.
79. Morton White, "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism" (1950), reprinted in Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History (New York, 1973), p. 121.
80. Goodman, "Art and Inquiry," p. 108.
81. Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (Indianapolis, 1968), p. 252.
82. Goodman, "Art and Inquiry," pp. 114-15.
83. Goodman, "Art and Inquiry," pp. 108, 118
84. W. V. Quine, "On the Nature of Moral Values," in Theories and Things (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 55.
85. I develop this view in chapter 10
86. William James, Pragmatism, [ed. Fredson Bowers and Ignas K. Skrupskelis] (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), p. 116.
87. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Path of the Law," in Collected Legal Papers (New York, 1920), pp. 172, 173. This essay is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text
88. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Natural Law," in Collected Legal Papers, p. 313.
89. H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford, 1961), p. 82.
90. Nelson Goodman,W. V. Quine, and Morton White, "A Triangular Correspondence in 1947," appendix to A Philosopher's Story, by Morton White (University Park, Pa., 1999), pp. 337-57.
91. Nelson Goodman, "On Likeness of Meaning," in Problems and Projects (New York, 1972), pp. 221-30
92. Morton White, "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism," in Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History (New York, 1973), pp. 121-37
93. W. V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, 1953), pp. 20-46.
94. OliverWendell Holmes, "The Theory of Legal Interpretation," in Collected Legal Papers, p. 203.
95. Lochner v. New York, 75, 76.
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99. Bertrand Russell, Philosophical Essays (London, 1910), p. 134.
100. See my Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (New York, 1972), pp. 204-16.
101. W. V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," in From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), p. 44.
102. W. V. Quine, "Epistemology Naturalized," in Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (New York, 1969), p. 85.
103. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford, 1975), book II, chap. I, sec. 17 (p. 56).
104. James, Pragmatism, p. 93.
105. W. V. Quine, "On the Nature of Moral Values," in Theories and Things (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 64.
106. W. V. Quine, "Reply to Morton White," in The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, ed. Lewis Edwin Hahn and Paul Arthur Schilpp, 2nd ed. (Chicago, 1998), pp. 663-65.
107. W. V. Quine, From Stimulus to Science (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), p. 49.
108. Quine, "Epistemology Naturalized," p. 88 n. 7.
109. Quine, "Reply to Morton White," p. 664.
110. Nelson Goodman, "Sense and Certainty," in Problems and Projects (New York, 1992), pp. 60-61.
111. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), p. 20
112. Husserl, Quine, Goodman, Rawls, and myself, and especially Husserl
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114. Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis, 1965), pp. 64-65.
115. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Ideals and Doubts," in Collected Legal Papers (New York, 1920), pp. 304-6.
116. William James, "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life," in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York, 1898), pp. 208-9.
117. Toward Reunion in Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass., 1956), pp. 287-88.
118. John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (New York, 1938), pp. 16-17.
119. William James, "The Sentiment of Rationality," in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York, 1898), p. 104.
120. William James, Pragmatism, [ed. Fredson Bowers and Ignas K. Skrupskelis] (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), pp. 35, 36.
121. John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto, 1973), book I, chap. 8, sec. 7 (1:151-52).
122. LudwigWittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford, 1978), sec. 67 (p. 32).
123. Mill, Logic, book I, chap. 8, sec. 7 (1:153).