Sandra B. Rosenthal
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Former Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans. Author of Charles Peirce's Pragmatic Pluralism (1994) and others. Her contributions to SAGE Publications' Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (2008) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Pragmatism, school of philosophy, dominant in the United States in the first quarter of the 20th century, based on the principle that the usefulness, workability, and practicality of ideas, policies, and proposals are the criteria of their merit. It stresses the priority of action over doctrine, of…
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