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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.
more than other century, it was the nineteenth century that drew the battle lines. How are we to understand the development that caused the traditional value system to be challenged? What led human beings to no longer take for granted the world in which they once found themselves? This is of course a very long, complicated story.
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Feb 1, 2014 · This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars.
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 .
‘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.
The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
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In short, the purpose is to explicate, analyze and critically examine the nineteenth‐century ideas of greatest philosophical value. Having said that, it is clear that great philosophical ideas often de facto do have a close relationship to an historical period, both forming it and reflecting it.
