In the diccionary «Metaphysics, the key concepts» da Routledge we read the following definition of pragmatism:
«Pragmatism is a variety of global anti-realism (see realism and anti-realism (global) and has its roots in the work of the American philosophers C.S.Pierce (1839-1914) William James (1842-1910, brother of the novelist Henry James) and John Dewey(1859-1952). (Actually many pragmatists would describe themselves as realists; however we are working with a definition of anti-realism according to which the anti-realist holds that reality is not mind-independence, and pragmatist subscribe, implicitly at least, to that thesis). (Helen Beebee, Nikk Effingham, Philip Goff, Metaphysics, the key concepts, Routledge, pages 172-173).
That is an error. Pragmatism is characterized as the philosophy of action, of searching what is useful and tangible and, so, is compatible at the same time with realism and anti-realism (material idealism, phenomenology...). There is no opposition but inclusion and complementarity between pragmatism, belonging to the genus ergological ( ergon means work in ancien greek language) and realism, belonging to the genus ontological, i.e, consistency/nature of being. There is a realistic pragmatism and an idealist pragmatism. In the definition of Routledge book we are analyzing, there is an absence of a dialectical thought.
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