The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination
Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
Read MoreA Pragmatic Approach to Ideas
Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
Read MorePhilosopher William James‘ concept of tender-minded vs. tough-minded thinkers helps us better understand what most informs our personal beliefs.
Read MoreWhile the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.
Read MorePoets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.
Read MoreA defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.
Read MoreAlthough 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.
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