2024/2025

Philosophy of American Pragmatism and its Legacy

Type: Optional course (faculty)

Delivered by: School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

When: 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Dmitry Moiseev

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 36

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This is an introduction to the philosophy of American Pragmatism of the XIX century and its legacy in the XX – XXI centuries. The course is aimed to guide the students through the history of Pragmatism since its establishment as a philosophical tradition by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and Josiah Royce, its development by George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, its different modes of application – in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and various kinds of practical philosophy. During the course the students will have the opportunity to study the ideas of principal proponents of Pragmatism using the fragments of the primary classic texts and additional scientific literature, the core tenets of this philosophical school and its practical applications and effects.