Causation in the Special Sciences: the Case for Pragmatism

The Nature of the Entrepreneurial Process: Causation, Effectuation, and Pragmatism

Peripheral Vision Institutions and Individuals: Interaction and Evolution

The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and agency, and makes a novel addition, based on a concept of habit derived from pragmatism and Veblenian institutional economics. Processes of habituation provide a mechanism of ‘r...

Institutions and Individuals: Interaction and Evolution

The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and agency, and makes a novel addition, based on a concept of habit derived from pragmatism and Veblenian institutional economics. Processes of habituation provide a mechanism of „r...

Nursing profession: a pragmatic discipline

Background & Aim: The nursechr('39')s philosophical perspective affects his/her caring performance. Pragmatism is also an important philosophical thought. Pragmatism is often found in nursing texts, but few authors have discussed in depth its application in nursing. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to review the effects of pragmatism philosophy in the dimensions of knowledge, education...

Five Answers on Pragmatism

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United States in, for example, the Italian pragmatists and the radical British pragmatist F. C. S. Schiller. Classical pragmatism, she observes, is a rich and varied tradition from which t...