pragmatism (n.): says: Do not charge a current social practice or a currently spoken language with being unfaithful to reality, with getting things wrong.

John Dewey on Pragmatism

functionalism

pragmatism

structuralism

William James

is a philosophical tradition that judges ideas by their practical consequences.

is idealism after it finally paid the electric bill

is a theory of truth as well as a theory of meaning.

is nothing but a new name for some old ways of thinking.

pragmatism is nothing but A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking.

is no friend of purity --- a small evil is a great good.

is a philosophical outlook, not a logical principle [as it is for Peirce].

Peirce sees pragmatism as a logical principle. The maxim is a tool of analysis designed to make our concepts clear and logically precise. For James, pragmatism is a philosophical outlook.

neopragmatism

pragmaticism

prophetic pragmatism

transcendental pragmatism

Addams, Jane

Apel, Karl-Otto

Brandom, Robert

Dewey, John

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Follett, Mary Parker

Goodman, Nelson

Habermas, Jurgen

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hook, Sidney

James, William

Lewis, C. I.

Mead, George Herbert

Papini, Giovanni

Peirce, Charles Sanders

Quine, W.V.O.

Ramsey, Frank P.

Rescher, Nicholas

Rorty, Richard

Santayana, George

West, Cornel

Wright, Chauncey

Royce, Josiah

Russell, Bertrand

Kant, Immanuel

Angela Merkel

functionality

ironist

pure experience

radical empiricism

second-class method

end of ideology

American idealism

impractical

inexpedience

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morals in politics

noble ideal

pedantry

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theoreticism

dealism

good enough ethnography

necessary evil

Dewey

ends and means

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half measure

internal realism

knowledge in the real

lesser of two evils

liberal irony

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mirror of nature

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moderate republican

Obamaism

pragmatic theory of observation

romantic polytheism

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non-representational theory

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philosophy of practical experience

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pragmatist

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Realpolitik

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nihilism

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object-oriented philosophy

objectivism

Charles Sanders Peirce

John Dewey

neo kantianism

realist

says: Do not charge a current social practice or a currently spoken language with being unfaithful to reality, with getting things wrong.

says: Do not criticize a current social practice as a result of ideology or prejudice, where these are tacitly contrasted with your own employment of a truth-tracking faculty called 'reason' or a neutral method called 'disinterested observation.'.

says: Do not even criticize a current social practice as 'unjust' if 'unjust' is supposed to mean more than 'sometimes incoherent even on its own terms'.

says: Drop the appeal to neutral criteria, and the claim that something large like nature or reason or history or the moral law is on the side of the oppressed.

says: Instead of appealing from the transitory current appearances to the permanent reality, appeal to a still only dimly imagined future practice.

says: Just make invidious comparisons between the actual present and a possible, if inchoate, future.

The import of Dewey's pragmatism for movements such as feminism can be seen if we paraphrase Dewey as follows: do not charge a current social practice or a currently spoken language with being unfaithful to reality, with getting things wrong. Do not criticize it as a result of ideology or prejudice, where these are tacitly contrasted with your own employment of a truth-tracking faculty called 'reason' or a neutral method called 'disinterested observation.' Do not even criticize it as 'unjust' if 'unjust' is supposed to mean more than 'sometimes incoherent even on its own terms.' Instead of appealing from the transitory current appearances to the permanent reality, appeal to a still only dimly imagined future practice. Drop the appeal to neutral criteria, and the claim that something large like Nature or Reason or History or the Moral Law is on the side of the oppressed. Instead, just make invidious comparisons between the actual present and a possible, if inchoate, future.

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