American pragmatist movement

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The American pragmatist movement was a philosophical tradition, led by thinkers like Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, that emphasized the practical consequences of ideas as the core of meaning, truth, and inquiry.

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American pragmatism	23
American pragmatism (influenced by)	1
American pragmatist movement canonical	1

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Target entity: American pragmatist movement
Context triple: [The Fixation of Belief, influenced, American pragmatist movement]

A. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is William James’s influential 1907 philosophical work that systematically presents and popularizes the doctrine of pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas and resolving metaphysical disputes.
B. Four Pragmatists
Four Pragmatists is a philosophical work by Israel Scheffler that analyzes and compares the ideas of four major figures in the American pragmatist tradition.
C. Pragmatism: An Open Question
Pragmatism: An Open Question is a philosophical work by Ruth Anna Putnam that reexamines and defends the tradition of American pragmatism in contemporary debates about truth, justification, and moral inquiry.
D. American philosophy
American philosophy is a diverse tradition of philosophical thought in the United States, shaped by movements such as pragmatism, transcendentalism, and analytic philosophy, and concerned with issues of democracy, individualism, and social reform.
E. Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: American pragmatist movement
Target entity description: The American pragmatist movement was a philosophical tradition, led by thinkers like Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, that emphasized the practical consequences of ideas as the core of meaning, truth, and inquiry.

A. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is William James’s influential 1907 philosophical work that systematically presents and popularizes the doctrine of pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas and resolving metaphysical disputes.
B. Four Pragmatists
Four Pragmatists is a philosophical work by Israel Scheffler that analyzes and compares the ideas of four major figures in the American pragmatist tradition.
C. Pragmatism: An Open Question
Pragmatism: An Open Question is a philosophical work by Ruth Anna Putnam that reexamines and defends the tradition of American pragmatism in contemporary debates about truth, justification, and moral inquiry.
D. American philosophy
American philosophy is a diverse tradition of philosophical thought in the United States, shaped by movements such as pragmatism, transcendentalism, and analytic philosophy, and concerned with issues of democracy, individualism, and social reform.
E. Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is a late 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that revived and reinterpreted Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, emphasizing the role of a priori concepts and the conditions of knowledge in science, ethics, and culture.
F. None of above. chosen