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What are the differences between the empirist (Locke, Hume, etc.) and pragmatist (Peirce, James, Dewey) conceptions of experience?
gpt
There are a lot of differences, but the most significant is in approach.  That is, they want to analyze experience for different reasons and think experience does different work.  

For the early modern empiricists (including skeptics) an analysis of experience is important as a way to get into important metaphysical and epistemological questions about how to ground various inquiries (ex: Hume on Causation) whereas the classical pragmatists resist much of the second step.

Whether this is a difference in quality or a difference in kind depends on the degree to which you think the Pragmatists are committed against metaphysics and the degree to which you think they individually succeed in their avoidance of it.