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2022 Year in Review: More Meliorism, Please
In a year replete with hardships for so many people, Erraticus contributors concentrated on the themes of hope and meliorism.
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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.
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2022 Erraticus Award Winners Pit Peirce Against James
A year heavy with pragmatist themes, the Editorial Team is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Erraticus Awards: Jon Alan Schmidt and Nick…
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A Wise Thing Bearing Gifts: My Conversations with ChatGPT
A humanities researcher puts AI bot ChatGPT through a few tests, with mostly laughable results and one promising potential use.
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The First Tool
“the first tool / is time.”
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Song of the Hour
“Song of the hour, / Be mine,”
Damn the Absolute!
A podcast about our relationship to ideas. Doing our damnedest not to block the path of inquiry. Hosted by Jeffrey Howard.
view episodes: The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination
★★★★★
“Cool to see a less dogmatic angle toward philosophy and politics. Wish I had known about pragmatism and pragmatists much earlier.”
The Localizer
★★★★★
“Good interview-based podcasts depend on good interviewers who can ask insightful questions without forcing the direction of the conversation. Jeffrey Howard is one of those interviewers who really makes a conversation flow, and that makes this one of the top podcasts. Highly recommmend it!”
SODAKSUFU
★★★★★
“Erraticus has made a point of engaging with big ideas in a decent and open way. I’m happy to see this continuing in a show about pragmatist thought. This is definitely a philosophy podcast to watch if you’ll excuse the synesthesia. Can’t wait for more to come out.”
Ralph Keenan, Esq.
Essays on Pragmatism
Democracy
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Bernie Sanders traffics in populist rhetoric, making muddled thinking about good intentions more important than sound policy.
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The answer to whether complex civilizations or moralizing gods came first has significant ramifications for how we address social ills today.
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Consider an alternative political system which retains the same institutions of representative democracy but apportions power according to knowledge or competence.