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SUMMARY:Representationalism and pragmatism - Piotr Szalek (Catholic Univer
 sity of Lublin\, Poland)
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CONTACT:Toby Bryant
DESCRIPTION:One of the most striking readings of Berkeley's philosophy is 
 offered by two founders of the classical American Pragmatism. Both Charles
  Sanders Peirce and William James regarded Berkeley as a pragmatist. The p
 aper seeks to explain the alleged proto-pragmatist elements in Berkeley's 
 philosophy in order to trace the historical relation between representatio
 nalism (resp. anti-representationalism) and pragmatism. The explanation wi
 ll be offered in terms of the two famous Sellarsian categories of the 'man
 ifest' and 'scientific' images of the world and human beings. The 'manifes
 t' image is regarded as a refinement of the ordinary way of conceiving thi
 ngs\, and the scientific image is seen as a theoretical picture of the wor
 ld provided by science. The paper argues that the modern pragmatism could 
 be seen as an effect of an attempt to synthesize the 'manifest' and 'scien
 tific' images by creating one unified synoptic vision of the world after t
 he modern scientific revolution (that caused a conflict between the images
 ) and the failure of the representationalism of Descartes and Locke (as a 
 part of a new conceptual framework within which these two images were supp
 osed to be combined).
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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