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“Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
Title
“Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Subjects--Topical
Philosophy, Metaphysics
Description
This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Title
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Evolution, Philosophy
Description
This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...
American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Title
American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Evolution, Philosophy
Description
This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...