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Neo-pragmatism: an ethical anticipatory system
European Journal of Futures Research ( IF 3.625 ) Pub Date : 2017-08-29 , DOI: 10.1007/s40309-017-0112-x
John Vodonick

In 1906 and 1907 William James delivered a series of lectures in Boston and New York. Those lectures later were distilled into a paper entitled PRAGMATISM A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. In 1972 Robert Rosen began to develop the model that resulted in the publication of his breakthrough work Anticipatory Systems. Seven years later, with the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty began to develop the interpretation of Pragmatism, which has come to be known as neo-Pragmatism. The theory of anticipatory systems as articulated by Robert Rosen argues that the activity of anticipation occurs through the encoding of models of the future and so, a deciduous tree will lose its leaves upon the shortening of daylight—an environmentally neutral event—which is the precursor to winter. The tree anticipates (through the process of encoding its environmental cycle) the coming of winter and diverts sap, its lifeblood, underground to its roots and essentially hibernates during the cold time. Rosen shows that this quality of anticipation can be said to be the defining element of all life. Ethics are models that encode our values and operate upon the contingencies of the past in the adjudicatory function or the possible contingencies of the future in the heuristic function. Of all the mainstream ethical models pragmatism is the only approach that expressly acknowledges that the results of our decisions may either conflict with or harmonize with our values. The form of pragmatism known as neo-pragmatism looks to the communicative justification of our past or future actions in relationship to our values to determine whether they are good or bad. In this sense neo-pragmatism constitutes moral anticipation, as much encoded in human society as the dropping of leaves is encoded in a deciduous tree.

中文翻译:

新实用主义:伦理预期体系

1906年和1907年,威廉·詹姆斯(William James)在波士顿和纽约发表了一系列演讲。后来,这些演讲被提炼成一篇题为《实用主义:旧思维方式的新名称》的论文。1972年,罗伯特·罗森(Robert Rosen)开始开发该模型,从而发表了他的突破性著作《预期系统》。七年后,随着《哲学》和《自然之镜》的出版,理查德·罗蒂开始发展对实用主义的诠释,这种诠释已被称为新实用主义。罗伯特·罗森(Robert Rosen)提出的预期系统理论认为,预期活动是通过对未来模型的编码而发生的,因此,落叶树将在日光缩短时失去其叶子,这是环境中性事件,这是前兆冬天。该树预计(通过编码其环境周期的过程)冬天的来临,并将树液,其生命线,地下的树液转移到其根部,并在寒冷的时候基本上冬眠。罗森表明,这种期待的品质可以说是所有生活的决定性因素。道德是对我们的价值观进行编码的模型,并根据审判职能中过去的偶然性或启发式职能中未来的可能突发性进行操作。在所有主流道德模式中,实用主义是唯一明确承认我们的决策结果可能与我们的价值观冲突或相统一的方法。实用主义的形式被称为新实用主义,它寻求与我们的价值观相关的我们过去或未来行为的交流论据,以确定它们是好是坏。从这个意义上说,新实用主义构成了道德上的期待,在人类社会中,与落叶在落叶树中的编码一样多。
更新日期:2017-08-29
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