Peirce's Pragmatism

The Design of Thinking
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1275-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Pragmatism and Values

This book cuts through the complex writing style of the seminal philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce. It disentangles his ideas, explains them one by one, and then puts the pieces back together for application to educational issues. Accessible to a general readership, this study provides useful insights into Peirce's pragmatism for educators and philosophers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiasson, Phyllis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
ONE Setting the Stage
TWO The Name Game
THREE The Name Game - Day Two
FOUR The Name Game - Day Three
FIVE Before Belief and Doubt
SIX Belief, Doubt, Critical Self, and Signs
SEVEN Exposition of Pragmaticism
EIGHT Components of an Experiment
NINE Propositions
TEN Experimental Phenomena
ELEVEN Generality
TWELVE Regularity
THIRTEEN Evolution and Thought
FOURTEEN Constructing a Conditional Purpose
FIFTEEN Continuing into Continuity
SIXTEEN Cosmology
SEVENTEEN Hegel
EIGHTEEN Engaged Intelligence
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix
About the Author
C. S. Peirce: “What Pragmatism Is”
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Phyllis Chiasson completed her bachelor’s degree in speech and theater education, and her master’s degree in secondary education, at the University of Arizona. She taught speech, directed plays, and coached the forensics team at Salpointe High School in Tucson before joining the Tucson Unified School District in 1970. There, Chiasson taught speech and English classes, first at Pueblo and then at Palo Verde High School, until 1980. In January of 1980 she became co-director of Educational Consultations, also in Tucson. While with this agency she assisted parents, teachers, foster parents, social workers, and counselors in helping students improve their reasoning capabilities. She also provided workshops and wrote for professional journals. In the fall of 1983, Chiasson relocated to the Seattle area where, after a brief stint as a corporate writer, she co-founded the Davis-Nelson consulting group. This agency addresses learning and performance issues within the business community. Chiasson and her husband, Hal Leskinen, raised a blended family of five unique children: natural, adopted, step, gifted, average, learning-disabled, and biracial. They applied the Engaged Intelligence methods and the non-verbal model referenced in this book while raising their children. Most significant was the usefulness of this information for determining how to parent two of their adopted children, both drug affected and learning disabled. In May of 1997, due in great part to the successful raising of these children, Chiasson was featured as one of four “Moms of a Lifetime” in a nationally televised program. In addition to her work with the Relational Thinking Styles (RTS) model, the Davis Non-verbal Assessment, and Engaged Intelligence training, Chiasson is also author of the Chiasson Temperament Indicator (CTI), a computer-ized temperament test based upon Carl Jung’s typology. In 1996 she and her husband moved to Port Townsend, Washington, where Chiasson is affiliated with Peninsula College. Her first contact with other pragmatism scholars came in the spring of 1998 when she joined the Peirce and Dewey discussion groups on the Internet. Although she occasionally teaches for Peninsula College and provides workshops for interested groups, her primary efforts continue to be focused upon the explication and application of the Relational Thinking Styles model of non-verbal reasoning habits and its accompanying non-verbal assessment tool.