The Seba library treats Pragmatism in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Simondon, Gilbert, McGilchrist, Iain, Peterson, Cody).
Pragmatism is still too dualist and substantialist; it just wants to rely on the manifestations of activity as a criterion of the being; this is to suppose that there is a being distinct from operation
Simondon argues that pragmatism fails to escape dualism because it still posits an interior being that action merely expresses, leaving intact the very substantialist ontology it purports to overcome.
, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, 2020thesis
What I propose here combines elements of the thinking of the American Pragmatists (James, Peirce and Dewey) on the one hand and of the European phenomenologists (particularly Merleau-Ponty, Scheler and Heidegger) on the other
McGilchrist positions his own epistemological synthesis at the intersection of American pragmatism and European phenomenology, treating both traditions as complementary rather than opposed.
, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, 2021thesis
What I propose here combines elements of the thinking of the American Pragmatists (James, Peirce and Dewey) on the one hand and of the European phenomenologists (particularly Merleau-Ponty, Scheler and Heidegger) on the other
McGilchrist claims intellectual debt to pragmatism while refusing to annex its figures to his argument, acknowledging that their ideas are not mutually agreed.
, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021thesis
Physics is Pragmatist in its approach to truth. It does not claim to describe reality, but to offer models that work.
McGilchrist characterises physics as operationally pragmatist, offering this as a significant structural parallel to his broader epistemological argument about the limits of representational truth.
, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021thesis
Wilson, channeling his own style of Jamesian pragmatism, fashioned a simple set of actions to set it in motion.
Peterson identifies Bill Wilson’s Twelve Steps as a practical expression of Jamesian pragmatism, bridging depth-psychological transformation and experiential verification of spiritual change.
, The Shadow of a Figure of Light, 2024supporting
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking.
Jung’s footnote cites James’s foundational text by name, registering pragmatism as a recognised intellectual reference point within the typological apparatus of Psychological Types.
, Psychological Types, 1921supporting
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Flores lists pragmatism as a framework bearing on the controlled-drinking controversy in addiction treatment, without extended elaboration.
, Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations An, 1997aside