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'''Stephen C. Pepper''' (April 29, 1891 – May 1, 1972) was an American [[pragmatism]] philosopher, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of California at Berkeley]]. He may be best known for [[World Hypotheses]]: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics. |
'''Stephen C. Pepper''' (April 29, 1891 – May 1, 1972) was an American [[pragmatism]] philosopher, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of California at Berkeley]]. He may be best known for [[World Hypotheses]]: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics. |
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Stephen Coburn Pepper received his bachelor's degree (1913) and his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University (1916). He trained under [[Ralph Barton Perry]], a noted [[Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)|critical realist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Fuller|first=Steve|title=Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times|date=|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2001|isbn=0-226-26894-2|location=Chicagi, IL|pages=398|language=en}}</ref> He taught primarily at the [[University of California at Berkeley]], from 1919 to 1958.<ref name="retire">{{cite web | title=University of California: In Memoriam, July 1975 | website=California Digital Library | url=http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9t1nb5rm;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00051&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=oac4 | ref={{sfnref | California Digital Library}} | access-date=2024-07-06}}</ref> |
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Stephen Coburn Pepper received his bachelor's degree (1913) and his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University (1916). He taught primarily at the [[University of California at Berkeley]], from 1919 to 1953. He may be best known for [[World Hypotheses]]: A Study in Evidence (1942), in which he presented four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems) in terms of their root metaphors: formism (similarity), mechanism (machine), contextualism (historical act), and organicism (living system). However, Pepper was also a respected authority on aesthethics, philosophy of art, and ethics, publishing a dozen books and more than a hundred articles. At the University of California he served as chair of the art department and, subsequently, as chair of the philosophy department. Pepper was the Mills Professor of Philosophy, an endowed chair.<ref>[https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Stephen_Pepper Psychology Wiki. Stephen Pepper.]</ref> |
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== Works == |
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=== World hypotheses === |
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Pepper may be best known for ''[[World Hypotheses]]: A Study in Evidence'' (1942), in which he presented four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems) in terms of their root metaphors: formism (similarity), mechanism (machine), contextualism (historical act), and organicism (living system).<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Odin|first=Steve|title=The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1996|isbn=0-7914-2491-X|location=Albany, NY|pages=304|language=en}}</ref> He also developed contextualism into a world hypothesis, focusing on the criterion of beauty as an "aesthetic quality", which he conceptualized as the immediately felt wholeness of a social context that precede subject-object dualism.<ref name=":1" /> One of the thinkers he influenced was [[Thomas Kuhn]], who joined as a junior faculty member at Berkeley during his tenure.<ref name=":0" /> Scholars have made comparisons between Pepper's world hypotheses and the Kuhnian paradigms.<ref name=":0" /> |
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=== Aesthetics === |
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Pepper was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics, publishing a dozen books and more than a hundred articles. At the University of California he served as chair of the art department and, subsequently, as chair of the philosophy department. Pepper was the Mills Professor of Philosophy, an endowed chair. At the university, he was noted for opposing the functional and aesthetic deterioration of the institution due to the construction of new buildings.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kerr|first=Clark|title=The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs|publisher=University of California Press|year=2001|isbn=0-520-22367-5|location=Berkeley, CA|pages=116|language=en}}</ref> |
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*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/429495?seq=1 Duncan,Elmer H.(1970).Stephen C. Pepper: A bibliography. ''The Journal |
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/429495?seq=1 Duncan, Elmer H.(1970). Stephen C. Pepper: A bibliography. ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'', ''28''(3), 287-293.] |
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*Pepper, S. C. (1942). World hypotheses: A study in evidence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. |
*Pepper, S. C. (1942). World hypotheses: A study in evidence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120917060535/http://people.sunyit.edu/~harrell/Pepper/pep_related.htm Harrell, B. J. (2000). Work related to Pepper.] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120917060535/http://people.sunyit.edu/~harrell/Pepper/pep_related.htm Harrell, B. J. (2000). Work related to Pepper.] |
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* [https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Stephen_Pepper Psychology Wiki. Stephen Pepper.] |
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*[http://archives.lib.siu.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=2238 Stephen C. Pepper Papers, 1903-1972] at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center. |
*[http://archives.lib.siu.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=2238 Stephen C. Pepper Papers, 1903-1972] at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center. |
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Latest revision as of 14:29, 6 July 2024
Stephen C. Pepper (April 29, 1891 – May 1, 1972) was an American pragmatism philosopher, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He may be best known for World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics.
Stephen Coburn Pepper received his bachelor's degree (1913) and his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University (1916). He trained under Ralph Barton Perry, a noted critical realist.[1] He taught primarily at the University of California at Berkeley, from 1919 to 1958.[2]
Works
[edit]World hypotheses
[edit]Pepper may be best known for World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942), in which he presented four relatively adequate world hypotheses (or world views or conceptual systems) in terms of their root metaphors: formism (similarity), mechanism (machine), contextualism (historical act), and organicism (living system).[3] He also developed contextualism into a world hypothesis, focusing on the criterion of beauty as an "aesthetic quality", which he conceptualized as the immediately felt wholeness of a social context that precede subject-object dualism.[3] One of the thinkers he influenced was Thomas Kuhn, who joined as a junior faculty member at Berkeley during his tenure.[1] Scholars have made comparisons between Pepper's world hypotheses and the Kuhnian paradigms.[1]
Aesthetics
[edit]Pepper was also a respected authority on aesthetics, philosophy of art, and ethics, publishing a dozen books and more than a hundred articles. At the University of California he served as chair of the art department and, subsequently, as chair of the philosophy department. Pepper was the Mills Professor of Philosophy, an endowed chair. At the university, he was noted for opposing the functional and aesthetic deterioration of the institution due to the construction of new buildings.[4]
See also
[edit]Publications
[edit]- Duncan, Elmer H.(1970). Stephen C. Pepper: A bibliography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 28(3), 287-293.
- Efron, A. (1980). Pepper's continuing value: In A. Efron & J. Herold (Eds.), Root metaphor: The live thought of Stephen C. Pepper. Paunch, No. 53-54, 5-53.
- Pepper, S. C. (1942). World hypotheses: A study in evidence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fuller, Steve (2001). Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Chicagi, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 398. ISBN 0-226-26894-2.
- ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, July 1975". California Digital Library. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ a b Odin, Steve (1996). The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. p. 304. ISBN 0-7914-2491-X.
- ^ Kerr, Clark (2001). The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-520-22367-5.
External links
[edit]- Harrell, B. J. (2000). Work related to Pepper.
- Stephen C. Pepper Papers, 1903-1972 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center.
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