![]() This rekindling of the historic Metaphysical Club address the ideas motivating a group of artists working to blur the line between art and the everyday. ![]() We might think of these six Chicago-based artists as neo-Pragmatists, sharing the philosophy’s values of experimentation, sensitivity to context, and the assertion that notions of truth are arrived at through lived experience. ![]() In addition to Peirce and James, membership in the club included Chauncey Wright, F.E. ![]() The event will feature presentations by Rozalinda Borcila, Joe Grimm, Liz Joynt-Sandberg, People Powered (Lora Lode & Kevin Kaempf), Bert Stabler and Fereshteh Toosi. The Metaphysical Club Pragmatism first received philosophical expression in the critical group discussions of the Metaphysical Club in the 1870s in Cambridge, Mass. It was here that American Pragmatism was born as a “half-ironic half-defiant” reproach to European metaphysics. It counted among its members future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, psychologist William James, and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce. The Metaphysical Club was a conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and dissolved in December 1872. The InCUBATE-curated portion of the Cabinet of Curiosities series at the MCA, The Metaphysical Club, is a one-night-only re-convention of the historic conversational society that was active throughout the 1870s in Cambridge, MA. ![]()
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