期刊名称：European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
电子版ISSN：2036-4091
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：2
出版社：Associazone Pragma
摘要：The contributions presented in this symposium explore, from different perspectives,the relationship between pragmatism and history, that is, the empirical study of thehuman past. These connections run deep, and may be assessed on several counts.First of all, many pragmatist philosophers have devoted a great deal of attentionto investigating the nature of historical knowledge and its relevance to philosophy.Classical pragmatists such as Peirce, Dewey and Mead laid a strong emphasis onprocessuality and evolution as fundamental philosophical categories. At the sametime, they rejected intuitionist or a-priorist conceptions of knowledge, advocatinginstead a continuity between philosophy and empirical inquiry. This approach wasalso sustained by their general skepticism towards overly closed systems, and by akeen interest in individuality and the unexpected consequences of experience. In thissense, it is not an accident of their intellectual biographies that they also painstakinglyreflected on the methodology of historiography, and dedicated themselves in firstperson to concrete historical studies (in particular, of science).
