Sami Pihlström & Henrik Rydenfelt “Pragmatist Perspectives”

Pragmatist and Non-pragmatist Knowledge Practices in American Law

Panas Henrik

Thermodynamic Properties of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) Michael W. Finnis1,, T. Davey1*, A.I. Duff 1,2, T.A. Mellan 1 1Imperial College London, Thomas Young Centre, Dept. of Materials and Dept. of Physics, London, UK 2Hartree Centre, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Scientific Computing Department, Warrington, UK *Present address: Department of Finemechanics, Fracture and Reliability Rese...

Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia

We describe our work towards developing SamiTalk, a robot application for the North Sami language. With SamiTalk, users will hold spoken dialogues with a humanoid robot that speaks and recognizes North Sami. The robot will access information from the Sami Wikipedia, talk about requested topics using the Wikipedia texts, and make smooth topic shifts to related topics using the Wikipedia links. S...

The Pragmatist Aesthetics of

Although William James wrote no philosophical treatise on aesthetics, he can be seen as an important source for pragmatist aesthetics. This paper reconstructs James’s aesthetic views from his diverse writings that demonstrate a keen regard for the arts and for the central, pervasive importance of the aesthetic dimension of experience, a dimension he saw as closely linked to the rational and pra...

A pragmatist theory of learning

This paper suggests that Peirce’s pragmatism might be a more suitable underpinning of educational research than the currently prevailing constructivism, in particular with respect to science and mathematics education. Using examples from the educational literature, a case is made for a notion of “truth”, a pragmatist scientific method, Peirce’s doubt-belief cycle and his semiotics and logic in ...