http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/07/15/reading-the-american-pragmatists/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/07/15/reading-the-american-pragmatists/comment-page-1/#comment-10171 jd Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:08:10 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1676#comment-10171 I am more attracted to Dewey's and James's emphasis on aesthetic experience than to Pierce's on scientific experience, though Pierce is more rigorous than James, at least. but as an artist, when Dewey says that philosophers must go to aesthetic experience in order to understand the nature of experience, I am obviously sympathetic. Aesthetic experience <em>predates</em> (as it were) scientific experience. I am more attracted to Dewey’s and James’s emphasis on aesthetic experience than to Pierce’s on scientific experience, though Pierce is more rigorous than James, at least. but as an artist, when Dewey says that philosophers must go to aesthetic experience in order to understand the nature of experience, I am obviously sympathetic. Aesthetic experience predates (as it were) scientific experience.

]]> http://www.sharpsand.net/2009/07/15/reading-the-american-pragmatists/comment-page-1/#comment-10160 nnyhav Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:39:22 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=1676#comment-10160 My concerns are similar, but I'm more of a Peircean myself (not that his system ever really coalesced [but that's a feature not a bug], nor that his life inspires), and have found that his writings and ideas dovetail nicely with Bakhtin's (not merely in semiotic aspects). My concerns are similar, but I’m more of a Peircean myself (not that his system ever really coalesced [but that's a feature not a bug], nor that his life inspires), and have found that his writings and ideas dovetail nicely with Bakhtin’s (not merely in semiotic aspects).

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