Why We Won’t Ever Arrive at Truth
A defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.
A defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.
Although some pragmatists argue truth is malleable and constantly changing, logician Charles Sanders Peirce asserts it is our knowledge of truth that is variable, not truth itself.
Pragmatism is an uncertain and pluralistic philosophy, but its malleability and modesty make it an incredibly hope-filled approach to life.
In defending liberalism, the philosopher Richard Rorty argues that there is no difference—in practice—between aiming at justification and aiming at something more called truth.
With culture wars focusing more on the nature of truth, the time is ripe to consider the connection between pragmatism and existentialism.
William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.
Things worth noticing are around us all the time, even with something as mundane and repetitive as the morning drive to work.
Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a ‘literary culture’ gives us more fruitful ways to move democracy forward.
Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.
Embedded into every tool is an ideological bias, and unless we continually re-evaluate new technologies, we may end up within a technopoly.
American politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
For low-income families, the move toward direct, broad cash benefits might prove to have a long-lasting impact once the COVID pandemic ends.
Rather than view recent political failings as flaws inherent to liberalism, we might be better served by focusing on the decline in trust.
Fascism has been on the rise in the US but does liberalism or antifascism provide a stronger defense against far-right authoritarian forces.
‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.
Honeybees don’t only inform us of further ecological collapse but invite us into being more mindful: present and compassionate.