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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Communication and consciousness in the pragmatist critique of representation

W. James and C. S. Peirce

Edmundo Balsemão Pires

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Abstract

The pragmatist turn in Philosophy in the late XIX century and XX century was a serious attempt to refuse the privilege of the representational elements of the conscious- ness in the production of knowledge. Such privilege has its roots in Ancient Philosophy, in some consequences of the Platonic heritage, but was toughened by Modern philosophers of empiricist or aprioristic lineages within the modern concepts of Experience and Truth. With these last concepts of Experience and Truth I’m referring to the objectivising tendency that leads to identify experience with the final object resulting from the judicative fixation of relations. Due to the fixation of some basic relations the object of experience was identified and conceived with such and such characteristics as something independent of the mental or judicative activity. Such method of fixation and objectivising of relations is also present in the common-sense ideas of Reality, Experience and Truth.

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(2011) Contemporary reassessment of William James a century later. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1).

DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.864

Full citation:

Balsemão Pires Edmundo (2011) „Communication and consciousness in the pragmatist critique of representation: W. James and C. S. Peirce“. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1), n/a.