id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8623 Pragmatism - Wikipedia .html text/html 14474 1976 51 I. Lewis' main arguments in Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (1929) was that science does not merely provide a copy of reality but must work with conceptual systems and that those are chosen for pragmatic reasons, that is, because they aid inquiry. In the early 20th century, Symbolic interactionism, a major perspective within sociological social psychology, was derived from pragmatism, especially the work of George Herbert Mead and Charles Cooley, as well as that of Peirce and William James.[35] The classical pragmatism of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce has influenced research in the field of public administration. Together with authors such as Juergen Habermas, Hans Joas, Sami Pihlstroem, Mats Bergmann, Michael Esfeld, and Helmut Pape, he belongs to a group of European pragmatists who make use of Peirce, James, Dewey, Rorty, Brandom, Putnam, and other representatives of American pragmatism in continental philosophy. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8623.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8623.txt