PHIL-280 Pragmatism
This course is a survey of American Pragmatism and its influences on 19th and 20th century philosophy in the United States. Proponents of American pragmatism strove to overcome the dichotomy of Rationalism and Empiricism that had dominated much of European and American philosophy from the time of Descartes. In its stead was proposed an approach to philosophy that emphasized methodological pluralism as well as the rejection of traditional problems from metaphysics and epistemology in favor of those drawn from psychology, education, sociology, and other applied disciplines.