One side – let’s call them the #pragmatists – view #politics purely in terms of #policies enacted and material change on the ground. The other – let’s call them the #idealists – see a role for demonstrating their principles and modelling them in public. It is a debate that has simmered for centuries, and yet seems to catch each new #politicalgeneration unawares."

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6399

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A question for the #pragmatists:

Anyone know of work that traces the evolution of #Dewey's understanding of #memory as a #cognitive function?

I ask this as I re-read Reconstruction in Philosophy and take full measure of just how empirically incorrect almost everything in the first few pages is with respect to what we know about memory qua vital function. It seems to me that by Logic his view is quite different, so I'm curious if someone has tracked this point. Thanks!

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Inspired by recent essays by @ironick17 for #Erraticus and conversation with @seancr8on,

I decided to contribute to the Erraticus Blog with some of my own thoughts on a few concrete ways #pragmatism gives me #hope.

#philosophy #pragmatists

https://erraticus.co/2022/11/15/what-do-i-hope-from-pragmatism/