Causality, Agency, and Reality: Plato and Aristotle Meet George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer

Puddephatt, Antony J.; Prus, Robert

doi:10.1080/00380237.2007.10571310

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“…Causality is complicated and has always been the focus of philosophical debate (Mellor, 1998). Aristotle's notion views the distinctions between objects, organisms, and humans as the foundation of knowledge (Puddephatt and Prus, 2007). In contrast, Hume was skeptical of causality.…”

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The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news

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Understanding causality is a critical part of developing preventive and treatment actions against cancer. Three main causality models—necessary, sufficient-component, and probabilistic causality have been commonly used to explain the causation between causal factors and risks in health science. However, news media do not usually follow a strict protocol to report the causality of health risks. The purpose of this study was to describe and understand how the causation of cancer was articulated on news media. A content analysis of 471 newspaper articles published in the United States during two time-frames (2007–2008 and 2017–2018) was conducted. The analysis showed that probabilistic causality was most frequently used to explain the causal relationship between risk factors and cancer. The findings also uncovered other important details of news framing, including types and characteristics of risk factors, intervention measures, and sources of evidence. The results provided theoretical and practical implications for public understanding and assessment of cancer risks.

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“…In past centuries, the true nature of causal relations has been the center of debate (Hume, 2000(Hume, [1748; Lewis, 1974;Mackie, 1965;Puddephatt and Prus, 2007;Russell, 1929;Salmon, 1984). As human beings gain more experience and knowledge, the philosophical view has expanded from mechanical to probabilistic causality.…”

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“…5 Although Aristotle is often described as an objectivist or raw empiricist and Plato as an idealist, these characterizations not only disregard particularly consequential pragmatist motifs in Plato's texts (Prus 2009a(Prus , 2011a(Prus , 2011b(Prus , 2013bPrus and Camara 2010) but also dismally fail to acknowledge the broader, more explicit nature of Aristotle's pragmatist approach to the study of the human condition (see: Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric, Politics, Poetics, and Categories;also see: Prus 2003;2004;2007a;2008;2009a;2013a;2013c;2015;Prus and Camara 2010). Over the millennia Aristotle's scholarship has been represented in many different ways and across highly diverse realms of community life, but it is Aristotelian pragmatism (see " Prus 1999;2003;2004;Puddephatt and Prus 2007) that provides the conceptual foundations of 20 th century American pragmatism (and pragmatism's sociological offshoot, symbolic interactionism), as well as the somewhat earlier German social realist tradition that Durkheim discusses. study leaves for promising young French scholars so that they might learn about the latest thought and research being developed in Germany.…”

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Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality

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2019

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Whereas Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has long been envisioned as a structuralist, quantitative, and positivist sociologist, some materials that Durkheim produced in the later stages of his career—namely, Moral Education (1961 [1902-1903]), The Evolution of Educational Thought (1977 [1904-1905]), The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915 [1912]), and Pragmatism and Sociology (1983 [1913-1914]) attest to a very different conception of sociology—one with particular relevance to the study of human knowing, acting, and interchange. Although scarcely known in the social sciences, Emile Durkheim’s (1993 [1887]) “La Science Positive de la Morale en Allemagne” [“The Scientific Study of Morality in Germany”] is an exceptionally important statement for establishing the base of much of Durkheim’s subsequent social thought and for comprehending the field of sociology more generally. This includes the structuralist-pragmatist divide and the more distinctively humanist approach to the study of community life that Durkheim most visibly develops later (1961 [1902-1903]; 1977 [1904-1905]; 1915 [1912]; 1983 [1913-1914]) in his career.

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“…24 More explicit considerations of the affinities and connections between 20 th century American pragmatist philosophy and classical Greek scholarship (especially the works of Aristotle) can be found in Prus (2003;2004;2006;2007a;2008a;2009a;2013a;2015) and Puddephatt and Prus (2007).…”

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“…Thus, beyond the more immediate potency of the materials Kenneth Burke has to offer to students of the human condition, readers who return to the classical Greek and Latin literature (especially Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian) that Burke used will find a great deal of material of contextual, conceptual, and comparative-analytic value in the study of human group life. For more sustained indications of the conceptual, analytic, and substantive value of this literature, see: Prus (2007a;2008a;2009a;2010;2011a;2011b;2011c;2011d;2013a;2013b;2015), Puddephatt and Prus (2007), Prus and Burk (2010), Prus and Camara (2010). and analytic resources of Chicago-style symbolic interactionism (Mead 1934;Goffman 1959;1963a;1963b;Blumer 1969;Prus 1996; to his examination of classical rhetoric, Prus (1999) provides a particularly systematic analysis of "influence work as intersubjective accomplishment.…”

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Kenneth Burke’s Dramatistic Pragmatism: A Missing Link between Classical Greek Scholarship and the Interactionist Study of Human Knowing and Acting

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The term “rhetoric” often has been maligned by those lacking familiarity with classical Greek and Latin scholarship. However, a more sustained, historically-informed examination of persuasive interchange is of fundamental importance for the study of human knowing and acting across the humanities and social sciences, as well as all other realms of community life. While acknowledging several contemporary scholars who have reengaged aspects of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric, this statement gives particular attention to the works of Kenneth Burke and the linkages of Burke’s writings with Aristotle’s Rhetoric, as well as American pragmatist thought and the ethnographically, conceptually-oriented sociology known as symbolic interactionism (Blumer 1969; Strauss 1993; Prus 1996; 1997; 1999; 2015; Prus and Grills 2003). Because scholarship does not exist as isolated instances of genius, even the productions of highly accomplished individuals such as Kenneth Burke are best understood within the context of a horizontal- temporal, as well as a vertical-historical intellectual community. Accordingly, Burke’s contributions to the human sciences more generally and pragmatist social theory (along with its sociological extension, symbolic interaction) more specifically are best comprehended within this broader, historically-enabled scholarly context. Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pragmatism is not the only missing link between classical Greek thought and symbolic interactionism, but Burke’s work on rhetoric represents a particularly important medium for extending the conceptual and analytic parameters of contemporary symbolic interaction. Indeed, Kenneth Burke’s scholarship has important implications for the fuller study of community life as implied in the most fundamental and enabling terms of human knowing and acting.

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Causality, Agency, and Reality: Plato and Aristotle Meet George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer

Cited by 23 publications

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The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news

The explanation of a complex problem: A content analysis of causality in cancer news

Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality

Kenneth Burke’s Dramatistic Pragmatism: A Missing Link between Classical Greek Scholarship and the Interactionist Study of Human Knowing and Acting

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