The philosophical tradition mistakenly asks how the inside (i.e. thoughts, ideas, concepts) can represent the outside (i.e., the world). This trap is a consequence of the view that mind and body must be two ontologically different entities. On this view the problem of meaning is to explain how disembodied “internal” ideas can represent “external” physical objects and events. Several centuries h...

This chapter presents a translational approach to socio-technical design, as a new approach to the theorybased design of user interfaces, supported by a multi-stage process. A survey of the early work on theorybased design in HCI identifies the strengths and limitations of this approach. This new approach extends HCI with a socio-cultural perspective, and adopts creative practices from the fiel...

The present paper outlines John Lachs’s idea of stoic pragmatism and develops its important part that is the relation between individual community. In his project, Lachs reduces whole tradition Stoic philosophy to later, Roman version tries link it with philosophical American (especially William James, Dewey, George Santayana, who close at some points) hoping possible for these two "enrich comp...

It has often been remarked that bioethics is a quintessentially American phenomenon. Broadly speaking, bioethics as a field has tended to enshrine the value of autonomy, it places individual rights above communal well-being, and it has adopted a largely permissive and optimistic view of emerging biotechnologies. In contrast to much European thinking at the intersection of ethics and medicine, A...

This article systematically surveys the history of Anglo-American philosophy in Taiwan since late nineteenth century. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that (i) pragmatism remained influential given dominance continental Japanese colonized Taiwan, where universal values assumed by pragmatists were used resist Empire’s ideology, (ii) after WWII, immigrated Chinese scholars brought more ...

At 23andMe, we welcome opportunities to discuss ways in which we can balance the need to educate and protect consumers with our intertwined missions: giving people access to their own personal genetic information (PGI), and creating a novel, participant-driven research model. As the president of the American College of Medical Genetics recently noted, “the train has left the station,” no matter...

Although Brandom does not go so far as to say that a pragmatist attitude to the relation between semantics and pragmatics requires an inferentialist semantics, his motivating arguments strongly suggest that a pragmatist ought to be an inferentialist. In what follows, I discuss the connections between Brandom’s pragmatism and his inferentialism. I’ll argue that pragmatism, as Brandom initially d...

We articulate John Dewey’s “independent factors” approach to moral philosophy and then adapt and extend this approach to address contemporary debate concerning the nature and sources of epistemic normativity. We identify three factors (agent reliability, synchronic rationality, and diachronic rationality) as each making a permanent contribution to epistemic value. Critical of debates that stem ...

At some time in the 1780s the Industrial Revolution began—firstly in Britain then in other European countries. Technical and commercial advances enabled European societies to break through their pre-industrial production ceiling, initiating the seemingly limitless multiplication of goods and services. Expanding industry attracted labourers and their families to towns and cities, which grew rapi...

The conference "Neuroscience and Pragmatism: Productive Prospects" was held on June 10, 2011 at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia.