Pragmatism and post-pragmatism

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Students will get acquainted with this direction in philosophy, with its history and with its present-day representatives.

Course description: Origins and development of pragmatism, beginning with Peirce, James and Dewey through Sellars, Quine and Rorty to Brandom.

Learning Outcomes: It is expected that the knowledge of this subject will provide students with better insight into the problems of contemporary philosophy.

Literature/Reading:

• Anđelković, Miroslava, "Pers o percepciji i abdukciji", Theoria 4, 2006, str. 7-16.
• Anđelković, Miroslava, "Intencionalnost i kontinuitet svesti – Brentano i Džejms", Theoria 3, 2008, str. 15-27.
• Djui, Džon, Logika – teorija istraživanja (preveo Vasilije V. Tomović), Nolit, Beograd, 1962, 59-110.
• Životić, Miladin, Pragmatizam i savremena filozofija, Nolit, Beograd, 1966.
• Schiller F.C.S., “The Ambiguity of Truth”, Mind 15, 1906, 161-176
• Lewis C.I., “A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori”, The Journal of Philosophy 20, 1923,169-177 “The Modes of Meaning”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4, 1943, 236-250
• Sellars W.: “Language, Rules and Behaviour”, u John Dewy: Philosopher of Science and Freedom, The Dial Press, New York, 1949, 289-315) “Mind, Meaning and Behaviour”, Phil. Studies 3 (1952): 83-95.
• Anđelković, Miroslava, "Inferencijalizam i entimem", Kreativni entimem, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, 2007, str. 91-111.
• James W., The Principles of Psychology, Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.,Chicago-London-Toronto, 1952, Chs. 4 (“Habit”, 68-83), 9 (“The Stream of Thought”, 146-187).
• Pers, Čarls Sanders, Izabrani spisi (priredio i preveo Radoslav Konstantinović), BIGZ, Beograd, 1993, 131-159, 190-213.
• Rorti, Ričard, Konsekvence pragmatizma (preveo Dušan Kuzmanović), Nolit, Beograd, 1992, 117-140, 303-324.