Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1927. / Vita. Published also without thesis note.

The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that certain fundamental insights of psychoanalysis and pragmatism, heretofore seen as mutually exclusive, are, in fact, complementary, and uniquely augment, supplement, and clarify each other. It was believed that a presentation of the rapprochement between the two theories you'd be a significant contribution towards the maximum release and maturation of man's potential to inquire.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

It is the purpose of this thesis to show that the pragmatic philosophy is basically responsible for present-day developments in various teaching techniques.

Trots att datavetenskap är en relativt ny vetenskap ligger den till grund för mycket av denteknik som idag finns invävd i våra vardagsliv. En central del av datavetenskapen ärprogrammering, att skriva instruktioner i ett programmeringsspråk och på så sätt styramaskinen. Inom många yrken idag krävs det programmeringskompetens. Att det finnssvårigheter med att lära sig programmera är ett väl dokumenterat faktum inomforskningsområdet dataveten-skapens didaktik. Jag har närmat mig problemet medprogrammeringsundervisningen genom att undersöka den kunskapsbeskrivning som visar sigsom diskurser i kursplaner för programmeringskurser. En pragmatisk diskursanalys är utfördoch resultatet ställs mot olika kunskaps- och vetenskapstraditioner. De identifieradediskursena är fundament-, problemlösning- och systembeskrivningsdiskursen.Fundamentdiskursen är dominerande i de undersökta kurs-planerna och den har kopplingartill en kunskapssyn som under 1900-talet har blivit kraftigt kritiserad. Meningserbjudandensom når studenterna genom läraren, vars institutionella aspekt har studerats via kursplaner,kan kanske belysa problemen kring programmeringsundervisningen.

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Ontology is the study of what exists. Metaontology is the study of ontology. This dissertation is a work in metaontology. In particular, its goal is to develop, motivate, defend, and explore a distinctively pragmatist metaontology --- a pragmatist account of how to answer existence questions. To do this, I'll argue that pragmatists are entitled to a popular `deflationary' metaontology: one which claims that existence questions are so easy to answer that many recent ontological debates are misguided. I call the resulting position `ontological pragmatism' and argue for it over a variety of views in ontology and metaontology alike. In chapter 1, I characterise two opposing metaontological camps: the dominate metaontology --- what I call `mainstream ontology' --- and a deflationary alternative called `easy ontology'. I then present some motivations for exploring a central thesis of the dissertation: that pragmatism and easy ontology might be usefully put together. In chapter 2, I put these two views together by arguing that Amie Thomasson's (2015) easy ontology may be used to construct a pragmatist metaontology, resulting in the view I call `ontological pragmatism'. I then argue that mainstream ontology is misguided, from a distinctively pragmatist point of view. In chapter 3, I argue that ontological pragmatism is a plausible position for pragmatists and others to endorse by motiving the view and defending it from objections. In chapter 4, I compare ontological pragmatism to Stephen Yablo's (2005) fictionalist account of mathematics. I argue that pragmatism is more plausible than Yablo's account, establishing pragmatist approaches to mathematics as a new live option in these debates. Finally, in chapter 5, I use ontological pragmatism to respond to Sider's (2011) idea that there is a privileged meaning of `exists' said to `carve nature at the joints'. I focus on Sider's indispensability argument for this claim and argue that the pragmatist can diffuse his argument by showing that existential quantification is merely pragmatically indispensable for us, given our limitations. I conclude by highlighting some further lines of inquiry. By the end of the dissertation, I'll have (1) developed a pragmatist metaontology, (2) motivated and defended it, (3) applied it to the philosophy of mathematics, and (5) shown how it can defuse the idea that there is a metaphysically privileged meaning of `exists'. By doing this, I hope I'll have given pragmatists their own metaontology which may be fruitfully deployed in future debates.

This paper presents and assesses Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatic theory of belief, with special attention to his account of the role of belief in science. My aim is to present a chronological assessment of Peirce's main epistemological works, to consider two contemporary treatments of those works, and to ultimately determine whether or not Peirce's view of belief is internally coherent and consistent with his larger system of philosophy.

This paper presents and assesses Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatic theory of belief, with special attention to his account of the role of belief in science. My aim is to present a chronological assessment of Peirce's main epistemological works, to consider two contemporary treatments of those works, and to ultimately determine whether or not Peirce's view of belief is internally coherent and consistent with his larger system of philosophy.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf.