Pragmaticism Revisited: Co-evolution and the Methodology of Social Sciences

Abstract

I propose a reinterpretation of Peirce´s theory of pragmaticism which sees it to cater a general methodological approach, as well as a historical counterpoint, to a multiplicity of issues arising in contemporary social and behavioural sciences. This interpretation deflects methodological individualism but integrates co-evolution, abduction and triadic forms of emergence into it. It follows that pragmatism of Peirce´s contemporaries becomes its degenerated, one-world offshoot.