Robert L. Armstrong

 1. Pepper on Truth and Beauty: A Comment on Yanal

  Yanal paper

 2. A Personal and Philosophical Memoir of Stephen C. Pepper

Telescoping Sense: Conflicting Root Metaphors in Frege's Theory of Meaning

1. The Philosophy of Stephen C. Pepper: An Appraisal

2. (with Art Efron) Stephen C. Pepper: Additions to a Bibliography

  Barry K. Grant

Lewis E. Hahn

The Stephen C. Pepper Papers, 1903-1972

 What Pepperian Response to Rorty is Possible? A query directed to the paper by Andrew J. Reck, listed below.

1. The following are sections from a manuscript, Five World Hypothese: A primer on Stephen C. Pepper's Epistemologoical System with Illustrations from the Arts, Humanities, Social, and Natural Sciences. The manuscript was prepared for two principal purposes -- as an introduction to Pepper to be used in my classes in sociology (especially social theory) and as a primer on Pepper to be presented as an introduction in work which was attempting to apply Pepper to theoretical and practical issues. I intend to put more of the manuscript on line as I have time. It is however, a DRAFT and should be considered as such.

Introduction & Formism
Mechanism
Organicism
Contextualism
Selectivism (part 1)
(part 2)
(part 3)

3. Notes on Stephen Pepper's World Hypotheses

4. Social Structure, World Hypotheses, and Change.   This paper summarizes the major aspects of the four original world hypotheses and relates them to attributes of four types of social structure as defined by Mary Douglas' typology. An effort is made to use the tensions and contradictions identified by Pepper in the various WHs to impart a dynamic element to the social structures described by Douglas. Brief applications of this scheme are applied to problems of the relationship between class, race, ethnic, and cultural identity and social change including a somewhat more extended treatment of Mancur Olson's "logic of collective action." A hypothetical process of transit through the social structure/WH diagram is identified, one version of which is labeled the "lazy-S".

5. Social Structure and Manumission.   An attempt to apply the theoretical scheme which integrates Pepper's WHs and Mary Douglas' typology of social structures to the institutions of slavery, the manumission of slaves, and race relations in the United States and Brazil.

6. Bill Harrell Homepage, mostly related to Pepper but also other social theory and things indirectly or unrelated to Pepper's work.
 

Pepper's Approach to Metaphysics

  Monast's reply to Hartshorne

2. Pepper's Analysis of the "Work of Art": Radical Implications

  The Journal of Mind and Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal, vol. 3, nos. 3 & 4, summer and autumn, 1982. This double issue of JMB printed the proceedings of the "Root Metaphor Conference" at SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1982, some 22 papers on Stephen Pepper and his idea of root metaphor.

Memoir (of S.C. Pepper)

  Joseph H. Monast

Reply to Hartshorne

  Hartshorne's critique of Pepper's metaphysics

  James Quina and Lin Alessio

  Andrew J. Reck

Pepper and Recent Metaphilosophy

Stephen Pepper's Formist Light on G.E. Moore

 Pepper on Defintions and Aesthetics

 Ando Hiroshige, The Shono Station (from his Tokaido series) 

LINKS to WEBPAGES RELATED TO S.C. PEPPER

http://www.archive.sunyit.edu/scpepper/     Archives of the scpepper-l . You are urged to consider joining this list devoted to the discussion of Pepper's philosophy. Instructions on how to join the list can be found here.  A visit to the archives may help you get some sense of how this particular list works and whether it fits your needs are interests.
 

The Journal of Mind and Behavior : Link to the JMB table of contents back to the orginal issue in 1980, including abstracts for all of the articles. This includes, of course, the summer/autumn issue of 1982 which printed the papers delivered at "Root Metaphor: An Interdisciplinary Conference" at the University of Buffalo, May, 1982

Conceptual Metaphor Home Page : A collection of brief studies of specific metaphors with respect to their logical/conceptual foundations and their logical/conceptual implications. These exercises are done with the work of George LaKoff and Mark Johnson in mind (e.g., Metaphors We Live By, LaKoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind)

Metaphor Center: The role of metaphor in human thought is gaining more and more attention. This site and the others in this section look carefully at this area of interest along with other aspects of language, symbols, and cognition. Many links to related areas.

George Herbert Mead : a major sociological thinker and an important conduit for the influence of American pragmatism on sociological theory.

Center for Dewey Studies: If pragmatism has been the major contribution of the United States to world philosophy then John Dewey has probably been Americas most influential pragmatist. Not usually thought of as a sociologist, he has nevertheless had a profound influence on the discipline.

Arisbe: The Charles Sanders Peirce Telecommunity : Charles Peirce, an American philosopher and scientist, is the inventor of pragmatism and probably semiotics. This page carries some of CSP's writing and great deal of writing or links to writing by scholars working in the peircean disciplines.

University of Louisville Department of Philosophy / Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism:  This links to the homepages of  the Philosophy Department at the University of Louisville and The American Society for Aesthetics (ASA). A principal publication of the ASA is The Journal of Aesthetics and Art  Criticism and this site carries the journal's tables of content back to its original issue (1942) as well as other information about the JAAC.

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