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  • 2023 Erraticus Award Winners Announced

    2023 Erraticus Award Winners Announced

    Erraticus experienced an increased number of blog posts responding to essay contributions, revealing readers’ eagerness to engage in meaningful dialogue.

  • ‘Good Enough’: 2023 Year in Review

    ‘Good Enough’: 2023 Year in Review

    Amidst a year filled with literary essays, the recent passing of philosopher John Lachs enables us to reflect deeply on mortality and why we should be contented with that which is good enough.

  • An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically

    An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically

    While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.

  • Give Me Beta-Modernism, Instead

    Give Me Beta-Modernism, Instead

    If metamodernism means a future without tragic conflicts, maybe we’re better off with beta-modernism, instead.

  • 2022 Year in Review: More Meliorism, Please

    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.

  • Why We Won’t Ever Arrive at Truth

    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.

  • 2022 Erraticus Award Winners Pit Peirce Against James

    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 Gall.

  • Truth as Pragmatism’s Only Hope

    Truth as Pragmatism’s Only Hope

    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.

  • What Do I Hope from Pragmatism?

    What Do I Hope from Pragmatism?

    Pragmatism is an uncertain and pluralistic philosophy, but its malleability and modesty make it an incredibly hope-filled approach to life.

  • Damn the Absolute! – The Pragmatist Podcast Returns with Season Two

    Damn the Absolute! – The Pragmatist Podcast Returns with Season Two

    Season Two of the pragmatist podcast Damn the Absolute! will be released later this week with guest philosopher Jessica Wahman discussing the metaphorical nature of scientific knowledge.

  • Recognizing the 2021 Erraticus Award Winners

    Recognizing the 2021 Erraticus Award Winners

    Among a group of penetrating essays, the Erraticus Editorial Team is happy to recognize the 2021 Erraticus Award Winners: Eleni Angelou and Henriikka Hannula.

  • 2021 Year in Review: Curiosity Manifold and Two New Initiatives

    2021 Year in Review: Curiosity Manifold and Two New Initiatives

    Erraticus added another podcast to the family, Curiosity Manifold, and launched two new initiatives during 2021.

  • Announcing the 2020 Erraticus Award Winners

    Announcing the 2020 Erraticus Award Winners

    We are pleased to announce our 2020 Erraticus Award winners: Jonah Bennett and Donovan Irven.

  • 2020 Year in Review: A New Podcast, Readership Grows

    2020 Year in Review: A New Podcast, Readership Grows

    Despite an abnormal year that has intimately and emotionally challenged each of us, we are pleased with what Erraticus has been achieved.

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