"Pragmatism says that instead of trying to find pure pristine foundations for all of our knowledge, we need to ask: what is the best that fallible human beings can do? And that's what truth and ...

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What is the American character? We can approach this question by looking at some international philosophical stereotypes. Traditionally, the Germans are idealists, the French rationalists, the English ...

Peter Berkowitz has an interesting essay in the Weekly Standard on Obama’s pragmatism. In it, he argues that Obama’s much-touted Pragmatism is deeply ideological. This is straight up my alley. So I ...

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How to deal with disagreement is an urgent challenge of our times. Without ground rules for adjudicating on competing claims, decisions get made by force and prejudices flourish. Pragmatism is an ...

THERE is a strange phenomenon at the present moment, which even the wayfaring man (if he reads a little) must be struck with — or be curious about. A philosophical theory is out in the world making ...

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David Schaefer misquoted me (People's Forum, 4/29) as saying Pragmatism is "America's Official Philosophy." I actually wrote that pragmatism is America's "de facto national philosophy." The term de ...

Philosophy education at Korean universities is rapidly perishing. Overwhelmed by practical studies, school campuses have no more room for philosophy and other human studies. The number of students ...