{"id":1720,"date":"2023-01-23T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:10:57","slug":"transcendentalism-and-other-free-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/01\/23\/transcendentalism-and-other-free-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Transcendentalism&#8221; and other free stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my Pragmatism course, I spend a week on the transcendentalists before getting to pragmatism as such. Setting things up this time, I realized that I&#8217;m still using the PDF of Theodore Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Transcendentalism&#8221; lecture which I scanned back in 2003. It&#8217;s not pretty. Since the essay is in the public domain, there should be something better. So I started from the OCR text, cleaned it up, set it up in LaTeX, and generated<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/pragmatism\/blob\/master\/Parker-transcendentalism.pdf\"> a nice PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have posted it as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/pragmatism\">my repository of free texts in pragmatism and American philosophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another recent addition is the third of Peirce&#8217;s <em>Popular Science<\/em> essays, &#8220;The Doctrine of Chances&#8221;. It is common to just assign the first two essays (&#8220;Fixation of Belief&#8221; and &#8220;How to Make Our Ideas Clear&#8221;), and nicely formatted electronic versions of those are ubiquitous.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1720' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/01\/23\/transcendentalism-and-other-free-stuff\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1720' title=' Approaching the course this time, I think that the contrast between Peirce and James will be made especially clear by having &amp;#8220;The Doctrine of Chances&amp;#8221; in mind when we discuss &amp;#8220;The Will to Believe&amp;#8221;. For Peirce, logic requires that we commit ourselves to the community and the long run. For James, we each have the right to take a chance on truth just for ourselves.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Pragmatism course, I spend a week on the transcendentalists before getting to pragmatism as such. Setting things up this time, I realized that I&#8217;m still using the PDF of Theodore Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Transcendentalism&#8221; lecture which I scanned back in 2003. It&#8217;s not pretty. Since the essay is in the public domain, there should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/01\/23\/transcendentalism-and-other-free-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Transcendentalism&#8221; and other free stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,23,13],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-open-access","tag-pragmatism","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-rK","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}