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Lisa Kampen

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Pragmatism as Idealism? The Case of Mary Whiton Calkins.

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences April 1, 2025 Lisa Kampen 2 citations

American pragmatism is traditionally described as a logico-philosophical movement that arose in opposition to the theological and metaphysical assumptions of the early American idealists. Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) challenges this narrative in two central ways: she presents pragmatism as encompassing psychological, logical, and metaphysical doctrines, and she characterizes "metaphysical...