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American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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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...
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Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
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Author
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Tingelstad, Catherine, Otis, Stephanie
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Research--Methodology, Academic libraries
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Description
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Our collaborative project and resulting pedagogy emphasize student-centered learning and critical reading and introduce a disruptive challenge for students to question assumptions, challenge binary thinking, and tolerate ambiguity. Using class rea...