Pragmatism was taken to be a philosophy because it was the only homegrown intellectual structure in America at the time, transcendentalism having had its hour.
So where does all of this realism and
pragmatism get us?
It is probably impossible to teach ethics to children if they grow up in a Conservative/US Republican society, that there never was a superior class of persons, but principles are a superior form of human thought, high above present
pragmatism.
While acknowledging the
pragmatism, self-interest, and unethical aspects of Russia's foreign policy, Dr.
Isn't
pragmatism, after all, inherently anti-theoretical (2)--and doesn't that mean that both my title, and my project, must be misconceived?
Ford's political life in Ambition,
Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R.
Keywords: Mixed method approach,
pragmatism, Laughlin matrix.
In "Knowledge, Foundations, and Discourse: Philosophical Support for Service-Learning," Goodwin Liu (1995) proposes that we ground the pedagogy of service-learning in the epistemology of
pragmatism. His article is largely theoretical, however, developing
pragmatism as an alternative to the traditional representational model of epistemology and only briefly exploring the implications for community service learning.
Seth Vannatta's Conservatism and
Pragmatism is a partial corrective to this neglect.
He also comes with the
pragmatism, however, of being a proven winner, with a number of trophies, and a coach who has the potential to yield instant results.