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  1. The American philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce and William James developed the pragmatist philosophy in the late 19th century. This school of thought holds that the value of an idea is based upon its practicability or utility rather than the extent to which it reflects reality.

  2. David Hume, a profoundly influential 18th-century Scottish philosopher. British philosophy refers to the philosophical tradition of the British people. "The native characteristics of British philosophy are these: common sense, dislike of complication, a strong preference for the concrete over the abstract and a certain awkward honesty of method ...

  3. Pages in category "19th-century British philosophers". The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. ‘On the Experience of Activity: William James’s Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism’. Journal of the History of Philosophy. 58(2) 2020: 267-291 Dunham, Jeremy.

  5. Modern philosophy - The 19th century: Kant’s death in 1804 formally marked the end of the Enlightenment. The 19th century ushered in new philosophical problems and new conceptions of what philosophy ought to do. It was a century of great philosophical diversity.

  6. Western philosophy - Rationalism, Empiricism, Existentialism: Kant’s death in 1804 formally marked the end of the Enlightenment. The 19th century ushered in new philosophical problems and new conceptions of what philosophy ought to do. It was a century of great philosophical diversity.

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  8. Feb 1, 2014 · The Handbook contains six parts: Part I examines logic and scientific method from Whately through to the advent of modern formal logic; Part II discusses some of the century’s most famous metaphysical systems such as those of the Scottish Common Sense school, J. F. Ferrier and F. H. Bradley; Part III covers science and philosophy, paying particu...

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