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Name:
Charles Sanders Pierce
Dates:
Born: September 10, 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died: April 19, 1914 in Milford, Pennsylvania
Biography:
Charles Sanders Pierce was an American philosopher whose work was instrumental in
the development of the philosophy of pragmatism. However, he eventually renamed
his own work "pragmaticism" because he disagreed with William James and other
pragmatic philosophers in certain matters, like the definition of "truth."
Aside from his involvement with the development of pragmatism, he has also been described as the first American empirical psychologist. Pierce experimented on color vision difference thresholds. He was also the first psychologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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