Brendan Hogan
New York University, Liberal Studies, Faculty Member
- Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Pragmatism, Critical Theory, History of Phlosophy esp. 19th and 20th Century, Rationality, and 41 moreAgency, Imagination, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Aesthetics, Intellectual History, Hermeneutics, Social Philosophy, Crisis, Methodological Individualism, Realism in political theory, Interpretative Sociology, John Rawls, Antonio Gramsci, Normativity, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Stanley Cavell, Jurgen Habermas, John Dewey, Democratic Theory, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Philosophy, Democracy, Political Theory, American Pragmatism, Deliberative Democracy, Philosophy of (Social) Science, Richard Rorty, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Dewey, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Contemporary Political Theory, Theories of Justice, Cosmopolitanism, Social Justice, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Gramsci, Neo-Gramscianism, and Hilary Putnamedit
In this reflection I draw out Richard J. Bernstein’s claim that he was a ‘scavenger’ and put it to use in revisiting main themes of his engagements with pragmatism, hermeneutics, Hegel, and critical theory. This piece is included in a... more
In this reflection I draw out Richard J. Bernstein’s claim that he was a ‘scavenger’ and put it to use in revisiting main themes of his engagements with pragmatism, hermeneutics, Hegel, and critical theory.
This piece is included in a memorial issue of Dewey Studies on Bernstein and is available open access here:
http://www.johndeweysociety.org/dewey-studies/
This piece is included in a memorial issue of Dewey Studies on Bernstein and is available open access here:
http://www.johndeweysociety.org/dewey-studies/
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Critical Social Theory, and 13 moreHermeneutics, Jurgen Habermas, Hegel, John Dewey, G.W.F. Hegel, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Frankfurt School, Habermas, American Pragmatism, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Jürgen Habermas, Classical American Pragmatism, and Pragmatismo
The fact of pluralism has set a number of practical and theoretical problems for political theorists. One of the most serious difficulties is the question of the criteria for judgment. What critical standards are available when... more
The fact of pluralism has set a number of practical and theoretical problems for political theorists. One of the most serious difficulties is the question of the criteria for judgment. What critical standards are available when encountering a society’s practices that are different from one’s own? One strategy for dealing with this is to separate out questions of ethics from questions of morality. We argue that this is a particularly unfruitful conceptual strategy. Rather our position is that the concept of real interests is already operant within the practices of judgment that constitute a community, or a form of life. Our strategy is to first explore the possibility of immanent normative critique of interests expressed in forms of life using Wittgenstein and Dewey in light of Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life (2018). Properly understanding how these standards of immanent critique work dissolves the problem of how to apply these to external contexts. While Jaeggi’s is an excellent contribution to the discourse on critique and justification, we find that there are commitments in her idea of “immanent critique” that require reformulation with respect to the question of real interests.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Political Theory, and 15 moreCritical Social Theory, Jurgen Habermas, Wittgenstein, John Dewey, Later Wittgenstein, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, American Pragmatism, Cultural Relativism, Pragmatismo, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Roberto Frega's Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy reformulates the question of democracy posed by our current historic conjuncture using the resources of a variety of pragmatic thinkers. He brings into the contemporary... more
Roberto Frega's Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy reformulates the question of democracy posed by our current historic conjuncture using the resources of a variety of pragmatic thinkers. He brings into the contemporary conversation regarding democracy's fortunes both classical and somewhat neglected figures in the pragmatic tradition to deal with questions of power, ontology, and politics. In particular, Frega takes a social philosophical starting point and draws out the consequences of this fundamental shift in approach to questions of democratic and political theory. This turn to social philosophy as a theoretically more sufficient conceptual vocabulary, extended in detail by Frega, raises questions regarding the work that a social ontology does in clarifying the role of economic and political approaches to democracy that are worth further exploration. Likewise, the practical proposals for moving beyond methodological nationalism with respect to forming publics for the sake of problemsolving, while providing a clarifying and fresh starting point, are still too beholden to models of agency and expressions of coordinated action that themselves are the very fruit of those systems which undermine democratic power in the first instance.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and 15 morePolitical Theory, Social Philosophy, Democratic Theory, Democratization, Jurgen Habermas, Deliberative Democracy, Philosophy of Social Science, Social Ontology, Democracy, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Jürgen Habermas, and Pragmatismo
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Pragmatic imagination: The reconstruction of inquiry, criticism and normativity in John... more
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This paper explores the consequences of the increasing prominence accorded to the role of imagination in Rorty's philosophical work .
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Critical Social Theory, and 14 morePhilosophy of Social Science, Imagination, Richard Rorty, Critique, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociological Imagination, NeoPragmatism, Classical American Pragmatism, Pragmatismo, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
The methodological foundations of any scientific discipline are shaped by the goals towards which that discipline is aiming. While it is almost universally accepted that the goals of explanation and prediction of natural and non-human... more
The methodological foundations of any scientific discipline are shaped by
the goals towards which that discipline is aiming. While it is almost universally accepted that the goals of explanation and prediction of natural and non-human phenomena have been met with great success since the scientific revolution, it is almost just as universally accepted that the social sciences have not even come close to achieving these goals. This raises the question addressed in this paper, namely, what is economics, and social science more broadly speaking, for? What is their aim, and
how is it similar and dissimilar to that of the natural sciences as we have come to classify them? I take up this question from a pragmatic perspective in this paper, setting economics within the wider context of social inquiry. Specifically, I turn to Hilary Putnam and John Dewey as exemplars of the pragmatic critique of any economics that sees its goals in line with those of the natural sciences, that is, as aiming for explanation and prediction according to governing laws of human behaviour.
the goals towards which that discipline is aiming. While it is almost universally accepted that the goals of explanation and prediction of natural and non-human phenomena have been met with great success since the scientific revolution, it is almost just as universally accepted that the social sciences have not even come close to achieving these goals. This raises the question addressed in this paper, namely, what is economics, and social science more broadly speaking, for? What is their aim, and
how is it similar and dissimilar to that of the natural sciences as we have come to classify them? I take up this question from a pragmatic perspective in this paper, setting economics within the wider context of social inquiry. Specifically, I turn to Hilary Putnam and John Dewey as exemplars of the pragmatic critique of any economics that sees its goals in line with those of the natural sciences, that is, as aiming for explanation and prediction according to governing laws of human behaviour.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Economics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, and 15 moreHistory of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Philosophy Of Economics, Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Social Science, Economic Methodology, John Dewey, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Pragmatism, Scientific methodology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Pragmatismo, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
The goal of providing a scientific account of human behavior has driven a great variety of research programs in the social sciences since their disciplinary formation and institutionalization. Arguably, the most dominant mode of social... more
The goal of providing a scientific account of human behavior has driven a great variety of research programs in the social sciences since their disciplinary formation and institutionalization. Arguably, the most dominant mode of social scientific discourse in the last century has been economics. Economists have given various answers to the possibility of providing a scientific account of human action. The most dominant school of thought, neoclassical economics, has answered this in the affirmative. However, the neoclassical model of human agency placed the rational chooser, or homo economicus, at the foundation of this scientific account. Homo economicus has been subjected to a wide variety of criticisms, including from within economics itself. Recently, this critique has taken shape in the work of behavioral economists such as Daniel Kahneman. However critical this rival theory may be, it remains the case that both schools rest upon an understanding of the methods and aims of economics that was the target of both John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This article draws out several consequences of examining both rival economic schools from Dewey's reconstructive understanding of inquiry and Wittgenstein's therapeutic treatment of intellectual problems.
Research Interests: Economics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Action, Pragmatism, Action Research, and 15 moreDewey, Rational Choice, Philosophy of Social Science, Behavioral Economics, Wittgenstein, John Dewey, Later Wittgenstein, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Pragmatismo, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Philosophy of (Social) Science, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
John Dewey attempted a pragmatic aufhebung of the disparate schools of social science in his 1938 Logic: the theory of Inquiry. There, in his penultimate chapter ‘Social Inquiry’, Dewey performed a trademark implementation of his... more
John Dewey attempted a pragmatic aufhebung of the disparate schools of social science in his 1938 Logic: the theory of Inquiry. There, in his penultimate chapter ‘Social Inquiry’, Dewey performed a trademark implementation of his deflation of absolutistic and universalistic pretensions in intellectual and theoretical discourse, in this case with respect to any one approach to social science. This deflation--as elsewhere in his analogous treatments of epistemology, ethics, and the theory of action-- involved the reconstruction of the claims of the naturalist, interpretivist, and critical schools of social science into one overall pattern of social inquiry. This recasts the different and seemingly irreconcilable aims of these schools into a series of steps in a practice. That these claims, then, simultaneously stand independently but in varying degrees of tension with, and support of, each other is a hallmark of pragmatism’s embrace of pluralism in intelligent problem solving. As we will see, Dewey’s discussion of interpretation needs supplementation from his broader philosophical commitments in order to see the full sense of both the compatibility and the incompatibility of his theory with philosophical hermeneutics.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Pragmatism, Social sciences and values, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Social Science, and 8 moreJohn Dewey, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Interpretation, American Pragmatism, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
This is a short paper geared toward an interdisciplinary audience. It asks the question as to whether or not liberal market economic systems can be considered to generate violence as an externality to their global spread and... more
This is a short paper geared toward an interdisciplinary audience. It asks the question as to whether or not liberal market economic systems can be considered to generate violence as an externality to their global spread and functioning. If so, what kinds, in what way, and what sorts of intellectual practices are concomitant with these externalities. Finally, it frames the question around how Gramsci understood the relation between violence and political struggle.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, and 21 morePhilosophy of Action, Globalization, Political Theory, Violence, Political Science, Liberalism, International Political Economy, Rational Choice, Philosophy Of Economics, Globalization And Health, Philosophy of Social Science, Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci, Contemporary Political Theory, Neo-liberalism, The Global Political Economy, Agency, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Global Political Economy, International Monetary Fund, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
Research Interests: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Social Sciences, Political Theory, and 23 moreDemocratic Theory, Political Science, Jurgen Habermas, Public Deliberation, Dewey, Deliberative Democracy, John Dewey, Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Social and Political Theories of Justice & Human Rights, Habermas, Radical Democracy, Social and Political Thought, Contemporary Pragmatism, American Pragmatism, Jürgen Habermas, Classical American Pragmatism, Normative Political Theory, Pragmatismo, Social and Political Theory, and Dewey and Habermas
Pragmatism Today, Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2015
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Political Theory, and 15 morePolitical Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Emancipation, John Dewey, Imagination, Charles Taylor, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social Imaginaries, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Imaginarios sociales, Classical American Pragmatism, Benedict Anderson, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
This chapter is included in a volume "Great Books Written in Prison: Essays on Classic Works from Plato to Martin Luther King, Jr." ( McFarland Press, 2015). The volume is geared towards undergraduates and the general reading public. The... more
This chapter is included in a volume "Great Books Written in Prison: Essays on Classic Works from Plato to Martin Luther King, Jr." ( McFarland Press, 2015). The volume is geared towards undergraduates and the general reading public. The webpage can be found here: http://www.greatbookswritteninprison.com
Research Interests: Intellectual History, History of Ideas, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Political Prisoners, Prison Education, and 11 moreHistory of Political Thought, Great Books, Critical Prison Studies, Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, History of prisons, Punishment and Prisons, Prisons, Prison, Gramscian Studies, and Gramscian Historical Materialism
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from Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy, eds. Skowronski and Kegley, Lexington Books, 2013
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Dewey, and 12 morePhilosophy of Social Science, John Dewey, Gramsci, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Hegemony, Antonio Gramsci, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
In José Manuel Bermudo (coord.): Figuras de la dominación, Horsori, Barcelona, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-15212-22-5
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Dewey, Philosophy of Social Science, John Dewey, Pragmatism (Philosophy), and 7 moreHistory and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Pragmatismo, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
Ethics & Global Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010,
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Human Studies (2009) 32:383–389
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Social Science, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Pragmatism (Philosophy), and 7 moreHistory and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Neo-Pragmatism, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Human Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and History of Philosophy of Science (Especially Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism)
from Cognitio Estudos, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2008 http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitio/article/view/5783/4093 An older paper investigating the centrality of imagination in a pragmatic theory of inquiry, using Dewey's unified account of... more
from Cognitio Estudos, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2008
http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitio/article/view/5783/4093
An older paper investigating the centrality of imagination in a pragmatic theory of inquiry, using Dewey's unified account of inquiry in his Logic: the theory of inquiry as a model. Consequences for social inquiry are touched upon in the conclusion.
http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitio/article/view/5783/4093
An older paper investigating the centrality of imagination in a pragmatic theory of inquiry, using Dewey's unified account of inquiry in his Logic: the theory of inquiry as a model. Consequences for social inquiry are touched upon in the conclusion.
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Technology, Technology, and 13 moreLogic, Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Philosophy Of Mathematics, Social sciences and values, Science, History and Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Logic, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Science and values, History and philosophy of science (History), Science Ethics, and History and Philosophy of Social Sciences
The second in a series of conferences on pragmatism and aesthetics, broadly understood. Sponsored by Pantheon Sorbonne 1, NYU Maison Francaise, and Liberal Studies-NYU.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, and 15 moreEthics, Pragmatism, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, Popular Culture, Philosophy of Art, Culture, Everyday Aesthetics, Stanley Cavell, John Dewey, Aesthetics and Ethics, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, American Pragmatism, and Pragmatismo
La Maison Française is pleased to host an exciting symposium on March 29th and 30th, Arts and Pragmatism: New Issues. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the intersection of philosophy and artistic practice under... more
La Maison Française is pleased to host an exciting symposium on March 29th and 30th, Arts and Pragmatism: New Issues. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the intersection of philosophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann Toma.
with the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University, Politique scientifique program,
Global Works and Society, Liberal Studies, and La Maison Française at New York University
with the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University, Politique scientifique program,
Global Works and Society, Liberal Studies, and La Maison Française at New York University
Research Interests: Music, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Pragmatism, Art History, and 15 moreArt Theory, Contemporary Art, Pragmatist Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Everyday Aesthetics, Music Aesthetics, Stanley Cavell, Wittgenstein, John Dewey, Art Law, Aesthetics and Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Pragmatism, and Pragmatismo
La Maison Française is pleased to host the Ethics and Politics of the 21st Century TV Series conference on April 1st, organized by DEMOSERIES, a European Research Council project hosted at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The... more
La Maison Française is pleased to host the Ethics and Politics of the 21st Century TV Series conference on April 1st, organized by DEMOSERIES, a European Research Council project hosted at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The conference will bring together a number of scholars, philosophers and film and TV specialists from France (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the United States.
From Orange is the New Black to Homeland, from The Crown to Ozark, join us for a full day of fascinating panel conversations about the framing of genres in recent TV, the ethics of your favorite shows, and popular culture’s potential for social and political action.
From Orange is the New Black to Homeland, from The Crown to Ozark, join us for a full day of fascinating panel conversations about the framing of genres in recent TV, the ethics of your favorite shows, and popular culture’s potential for social and political action.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Media Studies, and 15 moreMedia and Cultural Studies, Television Studies, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, Political Science, Philosophy of Art, Politics, Media, Aesthetics and Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics, Series TV, Social and Political Philosophy, Television, TV Series, and Televisión Digital
Research Interests: Emotion, Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Pragmatism, Feminist Theory, and 13 morePolitical Theory, Social Philosophy, Race and Racism, American Philosophy, Feminism, Desire, Philosophy of Emotion, Affect Theory, Affect/Emotion, Social and Political Philosophy, Affect (Cultural Theory), Contemporary Political Theory, and Feminist Political Theory
Governments around the world are facing a pandemic that requires not only global effort but presents a trial of political leadership. Different reactions to the crisis will play out in different ways and have different consequences. In... more
Governments around the world are facing a pandemic that requires not only global effort but presents a trial of political leadership. Different reactions to the crisis will play out in different ways and have different consequences. In some countries initial reluctance to act by trivializing the threat has undermined political leaders; in other countries, politicians have surprised voters with resourcefulness and principled decision-making. Public health officials have emerged as a major force behind policy decisions and sometimes even dictated social measures affecting most citizens in their societies.
Globally, the pandemic is bound to have destructive economic consequences whose depth and extent will only become clear with time. Elected officials will survive only if they are able to maintain a public perception of their efficiency and trustworthiness – or if they succeed in pinning blame on their political opponents or other domestic or foreign scapegoats.
Will the coming political upheavals be played out in elite power struggles where political leaders desperately try to retain – or gain – public support? Will the situation have deeper, longer lasting systemic consequences, affecting both national and global governance? One of the most intriguing questions is whether the crisis creates opportunities for increased critical public engagement and possibilities for more participatory and inclusive political agency. Will it make clearer the need for foundational documents – such as constitutions – to be co-written and co-designed? Will the crisis affect dominating values and norms by increasing public appetite for collective social action, such as comprehensive public health policies, and by making individual liberty less central in political rhetoric?
The final and most fateful question is whether the pandemic will mark one more step toward governments’ openly embracing techniques of power that enable large scale surveillance of populations. Then we might be looking at intervention based on the most intimate details about citizens personal lives of, for the sake of collective security and public health.
Will the pandemic increase the understanding of the need for strong public policies to fight climate change? Is it going to create an interest in revising some of the more fundamental ideas of liberal democratic societies expressed in constitutions? Or is its presence one more state of exception, which will be normalized and instrumentalized and which will make an ideal of democracy yet more distant?
Globally, the pandemic is bound to have destructive economic consequences whose depth and extent will only become clear with time. Elected officials will survive only if they are able to maintain a public perception of their efficiency and trustworthiness – or if they succeed in pinning blame on their political opponents or other domestic or foreign scapegoats.
Will the coming political upheavals be played out in elite power struggles where political leaders desperately try to retain – or gain – public support? Will the situation have deeper, longer lasting systemic consequences, affecting both national and global governance? One of the most intriguing questions is whether the crisis creates opportunities for increased critical public engagement and possibilities for more participatory and inclusive political agency. Will it make clearer the need for foundational documents – such as constitutions – to be co-written and co-designed? Will the crisis affect dominating values and norms by increasing public appetite for collective social action, such as comprehensive public health policies, and by making individual liberty less central in political rhetoric?
The final and most fateful question is whether the pandemic will mark one more step toward governments’ openly embracing techniques of power that enable large scale surveillance of populations. Then we might be looking at intervention based on the most intimate details about citizens personal lives of, for the sake of collective security and public health.
Will the pandemic increase the understanding of the need for strong public policies to fight climate change? Is it going to create an interest in revising some of the more fundamental ideas of liberal democratic societies expressed in constitutions? Or is its presence one more state of exception, which will be normalized and instrumentalized and which will make an ideal of democracy yet more distant?
Research Interests: Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Collective Intelligence, Democratic Theory, and 15 morePolitical Science, Deliberative Democracy, Public Health, Democracy, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Political Representation, Constitutional Politics, Representation, Democracy and Good Governance, Constitution, Democracy and Citizenship Education, Public Policy, Coronavirus COVID-19, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Research Interests: Economic History, Economics, Feminist Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy, and 15 moreEthics, Philosophy of Agency, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy Of Economics, Philosophy of Social Science, Economic Methodology, Behavioral Economics, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Economy, Scientific methodology, Philosophy of action and theory of rationality, Classical economics, Economic, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
University of Cagliari (IT) is delighted to announce that the conference Comparing Philosophical Traditions: Selfhood, Historicity and Representation between Hermeneutics and Pragmatism will be held on 14th, 15th and 16th March 2019 at... more
University of Cagliari (IT) is delighted to announce that the conference Comparing Philosophical Traditions: Selfhood, Historicity and Representation between Hermeneutics and Pragmatism will be held on 14th, 15th and 16th March 2019 at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology andPhilosophy, Cagliari (IT). The conference is part of the activities of the Interuniversity Research Center on Pragmatism, Construction of Knowledge and Education (http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/pcf/) and Pragma Cultural Association (www.associazionepragma.com), anditis supported by the Foundation of Sardinia / The Region Sardinia (National Research Programme on ‘Science and its Logic: The Representation Dilemma’, FdS/RAS 2016).
The function of representation, which plays a bridge role between factual dimension and interpretative construction of the past in historical knowledge, is a theme of particular interest within socio-anthropological and philosophical fields concerning individual and collective identity. This is an interdisciplinary domain thatat a different level concerns researches related to the theory and practice of make history, the interpretation of historical facts and studies in the philosophy of human action.
Representation comes into play even around the subjective and inter-subjective dynamics related to the processes of auto-reflection and personal realization, as well as in relation with all processes of social interaction, communication and knowledge (of the others and the world). It exercises a specific function in the cultural, social and scientific construction and sharing of knowledge and values.
The conference aims to bring to dialectical confrontation two distinguished traditions of thought, pragmatism and hermeneutics, with the leading aim of deepening and critically addressing the various aspects implicated in the field of historical knowledge and philosophical anthropology. Contributors can consider both the 'theoretical' and 'practical' side, with the aim of identifying elements of proximity, critical aspects and potential new developments.
Keynote speakers:
Hans Joas, Humboldt University of Berlin
Johann Michel, University of Poitiers / EHESS of Paris
Conference directors:
Prof. Anna Maria Nieddu, University of Cagliari, IT
Prof. Vinicio Busacchi, University of Cagliari, IT
Language: English, French, Italian
Conference Venue:
Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy
Via Is Mirrionis, 1
09123 Cagliari, IT
Office +39 0 70 67 57 52 5 – Fax +39 0 70 67 57 29 1
Email: segpsico@unica.it
Web.: www.unica.it
Thursday 14th (afternoon) – Friday 15th – Saturday 16th (morning) March 2019
CAGLIARI, via Is Mirrionis, 1
FACOLTÀ DI STUDI UMANISTICI - Corpo centrale, I PIANO, Aula Magna “Motzo”
The function of representation, which plays a bridge role between factual dimension and interpretative construction of the past in historical knowledge, is a theme of particular interest within socio-anthropological and philosophical fields concerning individual and collective identity. This is an interdisciplinary domain thatat a different level concerns researches related to the theory and practice of make history, the interpretation of historical facts and studies in the philosophy of human action.
Representation comes into play even around the subjective and inter-subjective dynamics related to the processes of auto-reflection and personal realization, as well as in relation with all processes of social interaction, communication and knowledge (of the others and the world). It exercises a specific function in the cultural, social and scientific construction and sharing of knowledge and values.
The conference aims to bring to dialectical confrontation two distinguished traditions of thought, pragmatism and hermeneutics, with the leading aim of deepening and critically addressing the various aspects implicated in the field of historical knowledge and philosophical anthropology. Contributors can consider both the 'theoretical' and 'practical' side, with the aim of identifying elements of proximity, critical aspects and potential new developments.
Keynote speakers:
Hans Joas, Humboldt University of Berlin
Johann Michel, University of Poitiers / EHESS of Paris
Conference directors:
Prof. Anna Maria Nieddu, University of Cagliari, IT
Prof. Vinicio Busacchi, University of Cagliari, IT
Language: English, French, Italian
Conference Venue:
Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy
Via Is Mirrionis, 1
09123 Cagliari, IT
Office +39 0 70 67 57 52 5 – Fax +39 0 70 67 57 29 1
Email: segpsico@unica.it
Web.: www.unica.it
Thursday 14th (afternoon) – Friday 15th – Saturday 16th (morning) March 2019
CAGLIARI, via Is Mirrionis, 1
FACOLTÀ DI STUDI UMANISTICI - Corpo centrale, I PIANO, Aula Magna “Motzo”
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Self and Identity, Hermeneutics (Research Methodology), Mental Representation, Hermeneutics, and 15 moreMartin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur, The Self, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophy of Social Science, John Dewey, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Richard Rorty, Pragmatism (Philosophy), George Herbert Mead, Pragmatic Sociology, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, American Pragmatism, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
ECONOMICS AS A MORAL SCIENCE: Exploring moral components of economic theory and analysis. International Conference. Warsaw, 9th November 2018. Modern economics began as a moral science. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher whose economic... more
ECONOMICS AS A MORAL SCIENCE: Exploring moral components of economic theory and analysis.
International Conference. Warsaw, 9th November 2018.
Modern economics began as a moral science. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher whose economic reflection was interwoven with philosophical and ethical enquiry. Economics used to be seen to operate within ‘the law of nature’, or treated as part of jurisprudence, which, in turn, had its roots in moral philosophy.
Later, after having embraced natural science’s methods and positivistic claims of fact/value distinction, economics came a long way toward scientific neutrality. This was especially true on moral issues. While Ricardo’s claim that political economy is ‘a strict science like mathematics’ finds few supporters today, there remains a strong methodological tendency toward positivism in the discipline.
Over the past fifty years, mainstream economics has come under considerable criticism from humanists over the apparent lack of ethical concern in the discipline. While there have been increasing debates over
ethical aspects of economic policies and outcomes, much less attention has been paid to the moral dimension of the questions, the methods, and even the goals of economics itself.
Thus, this conference has two aims. First, to focus on the implications of this distinctive narrowing in the scope of economic theory to economic methodology. Second, to explore moral components of economic theory and analysis which could be integrated systematically with analytical thought rather than being treated as mere add-ons.
The conference is organised by the Department of Metaeconomics at the Polish Economic Institute
(www.pie.net.pl)
International Conference. Warsaw, 9th November 2018.
Modern economics began as a moral science. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher whose economic reflection was interwoven with philosophical and ethical enquiry. Economics used to be seen to operate within ‘the law of nature’, or treated as part of jurisprudence, which, in turn, had its roots in moral philosophy.
Later, after having embraced natural science’s methods and positivistic claims of fact/value distinction, economics came a long way toward scientific neutrality. This was especially true on moral issues. While Ricardo’s claim that political economy is ‘a strict science like mathematics’ finds few supporters today, there remains a strong methodological tendency toward positivism in the discipline.
Over the past fifty years, mainstream economics has come under considerable criticism from humanists over the apparent lack of ethical concern in the discipline. While there have been increasing debates over
ethical aspects of economic policies and outcomes, much less attention has been paid to the moral dimension of the questions, the methods, and even the goals of economics itself.
Thus, this conference has two aims. First, to focus on the implications of this distinctive narrowing in the scope of economic theory to economic methodology. Second, to explore moral components of economic theory and analysis which could be integrated systematically with analytical thought rather than being treated as mere add-ons.
The conference is organised by the Department of Metaeconomics at the Polish Economic Institute
(www.pie.net.pl)
Research Interests: Business Ethics, Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy, Ethics, and 15 morePhilosophy of Science, Rational Choice, Decision And Game Theory, Philosophy Of Economics, Philosophy of Social Science, Economic Methodology, Behavioral Economics, Moral Philosophy, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Rational Choice Theory, Ethics and economics, Agency, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
The main idea of the conference is to focus upon the relationship between the pragmatist philosophy and Kantian philosophy, especially in the contexts of its future developments. By the term ‘pragmatist philosophy’ we mean the legacy of... more
The main idea of the conference is to focus upon the relationship between the pragmatist philosophy and Kantian philosophy, especially in the contexts of its future developments.
By the term ‘pragmatist philosophy’ we mean the legacy of the works and ideas of the classic American and European pragmatists, its Transcendental forerunners, its critical adversaries, and its so-called ‘neopragmatist’ continuators.
By the term ‘Kantian philosophy’ we mean the philosophy of I. Kant (embraced in all his works), and all those figures and movements that were inspired by his thought, be it within the neo-Kantian Schools, phenomenology, existentialism, Frankfurt School, or elsewhere.
There are no limits with regard the scope of the philosophical disciplines to be discussed, hence the discussion will embrace metaphysics and ontology, epistemology and philosophy of science, logic and methodology, ethics and bioethics, socio-political philosophy, value inquiry, philosophy of religion, and others.
We want to focus upon the future developments of this relationship rather than upon the history of philosophy that would study, for example, the factual influence of the particular pragmatists (especially Peirce and Royce) by Kant and Kantian ideas, though the latter is not, by any means, to be dismissed completely.
We hope that our project will be an interesting contribution to the current philosophical discussion between the pragmatists and the Kantians, as well as a stimulating platform for the exchange of thought for all those who get inspirations from both of these sources.
The Conference co-organizers:
Sami Pihlström, Helsinki
Chris Skowroński, Opole/Berlin
By the term ‘pragmatist philosophy’ we mean the legacy of the works and ideas of the classic American and European pragmatists, its Transcendental forerunners, its critical adversaries, and its so-called ‘neopragmatist’ continuators.
By the term ‘Kantian philosophy’ we mean the philosophy of I. Kant (embraced in all his works), and all those figures and movements that were inspired by his thought, be it within the neo-Kantian Schools, phenomenology, existentialism, Frankfurt School, or elsewhere.
There are no limits with regard the scope of the philosophical disciplines to be discussed, hence the discussion will embrace metaphysics and ontology, epistemology and philosophy of science, logic and methodology, ethics and bioethics, socio-political philosophy, value inquiry, philosophy of religion, and others.
We want to focus upon the future developments of this relationship rather than upon the history of philosophy that would study, for example, the factual influence of the particular pragmatists (especially Peirce and Royce) by Kant and Kantian ideas, though the latter is not, by any means, to be dismissed completely.
We hope that our project will be an interesting contribution to the current philosophical discussion between the pragmatists and the Kantians, as well as a stimulating platform for the exchange of thought for all those who get inspirations from both of these sources.
The Conference co-organizers:
Sami Pihlström, Helsinki
Chris Skowroński, Opole/Berlin
Research Interests: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy Of Language, Political Philosophy, and 33 moreEthics, Philosophy of Science, Kant, Pragmatism, Philosophy Of Religion, Logic, Political Theory, Peirce, Kant-studies, William James, Cosmopolitanism, Dewey, Kant's Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Charles S. Peirce, Emmanuel Kant, John Dewey, Immanuel Kant, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Kant's Political Philosophy, Charles Sanders Peirce, Kant & neo-Kantianism, Neo-Kantianism, Kant's Ethics, Peircean Semiotics, Kantian ethics, Post-Kantian Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Deontology, Pragmatismo, History of Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion
Conference sponsored by the the Philosophy Department of The New School for Social Research
Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy Of Language, Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, and 12 moreWilliam James, Dewey, Rational Choice, Philosophy Of Economics, Hilary Putnam, Stanley Cavell, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Pragmatism (Philosophy), American Pragmatism, Pragmatismo, and History of Philosophy of Science (Especially Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism)
Symposium on Richard J. Bernstein's "Violence: thinking without banisters" Polity; 2013. October 2013, New School for Social Research
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Sociology of Violence, Political Theory, and 22 moreViolence, Violence (Anthropology), Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, History of Political Violence, Walter Benjamin, Nonviolence, Political Violence, Religion and Violence/Nonviolence, Arendt, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Carl Schmitt, War and violence, Hannah Arendt, Religion and Violence, Frantz Fanon, American Pragmatism, Pragmatismo, Jan Assmann, Franz Fanon, and Religious and Political Violence
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and 10 moreTelevision Studies, Political Theory, Surveillance Studies, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Television, Social and Political Thought, Film and Television, Film and television studies, and Cinema and Television
Philosophy and Emancipation: A conversation with Joseph Margolis This is a video link to, along with a lightly edited transcript of, a recorded conversation between Joseph Margolis, Laura Carnell Professor, Department of Philosophy,... more
Philosophy and Emancipation: A conversation with Joseph Margolis
This is a video link to, along with a lightly edited transcript of, a recorded conversation between Joseph Margolis, Laura Carnell Professor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University and Brendan Hogan, Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University It took place on the occasion of the conference “Emancipation: Challenges at the Intersection Of American and European Philosophy” at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, February 26 – March 1, 2015
The video recording can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZIXUSvbnU&t=203s
Arranged by Rebecca L. Farinas, Loyola University-New Orleans, with support of Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz, Vice- Chairperson, Polish Society for Aesthetics . Filming: Malgorzata Michalowska Magister, Akademia Sztuki w Szczenie.
This is a video link to, along with a lightly edited transcript of, a recorded conversation between Joseph Margolis, Laura Carnell Professor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University and Brendan Hogan, Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University It took place on the occasion of the conference “Emancipation: Challenges at the Intersection Of American and European Philosophy” at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, February 26 – March 1, 2015
The video recording can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZIXUSvbnU&t=203s
Arranged by Rebecca L. Farinas, Loyola University-New Orleans, with support of Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz, Vice- Chairperson, Polish Society for Aesthetics . Filming: Malgorzata Michalowska Magister, Akademia Sztuki w Szczenie.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, and 11 morePragmatism, German Idealism, Emancipation, Metaethics, Pragmatism (Philosophy), History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, History and philosophy of science (History), American Pragmatism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Classical American Pragmatism, and Pragmatismo
Lecture given at Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, June 3, 2019
Research Interests: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Pragmatism, and 15 moreVirtue Ethics, Social Justice, Justice, Philosophy of Social Science, Virtue Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Pragmatism (Philosophy), History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Moral and Political Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Poltical Theory, Pragmatismo, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Epistemic Injustice, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
The methodological principles that have come to be enumerated as the fundamental starting points of neoclassical economics have been subjected to critique since its beginnings in the Marginal Revolution. The rational agent, the utility... more
The methodological principles that have come to be enumerated as the fundamental starting points of neoclassical economics have been subjected to critique since its beginnings in the Marginal Revolution. The rational agent, the utility maximizing character of their choices, and the methodological individualism that dovetailed so nicely with advancing methods of quantification have all been called into question if not completely refuted from a variety of quarters. These critics come from such areas of intellectual specialization as the philosophy of the social sciences (especially its subbranch the philosophy of economics), more humanist quarters outside of the sciences, and even within economics itself. The latter group of critics suffered increasing marginalization as the ascendancy of neoclassical economics married a positivist philosophical underpinning to the scientific pretensions and mathematizing tendencies of economics as a discipline. It is not without some irony, then that the practitioners of this science labeled mainstream methods ‘orthodox’ and those outside of the dominant discourse, ‘heterodox’, giving the distinction religious overtones.
However, as a now well-told story in philosophical accounts of economics has it, while positivism and specifically the philosophy of science embodied in logical empiricism fell upon hard times in the mid-twentieth century and was bypassed, the mainstream practitioners of economics of at least two schools seemed to ignore entirely the failure of positivism to account for a variety of its own aims. These failures reproduced themselves in neoclassical economics in terms of explanation, the irrational choices agents make, and a consistent failure to generate models which would predict aggregate market behavior. Behavioral economics took these failures as their starting point in reintroducing irrationality into their understanding of human decisions and now stands as a major contender for explanatory adequacy in providing economics with better scientific grounds for its intellectual project. It also has gained greater political traction in terms of policy.
However, the question of the relation of values intrinsic to the practice of science to the descriptions generated by that scientific activity still remains outside the organon of these two major schools of economic thought. This exclusion shows up in two ways. First, both schools basically accept that the end of human activity is the realization of individual preferences. On the neoclassical model, this involves the cost-benefit analysis of an internal algorithm that calculates action based upon given preferences and available information regarding means to satisfy those preferences. Behavioral economics introduces paternalistic interventions at the level of policy prescriptions to overcome the irrationality of individuals in the choices they make to satisfy their preferences. Agents exhibit irrationality stemming from a variety of sources including cognitive biases and framing effects that lead to choices which do not maximize utility. Thus both see action, and economically informed policy as a means for preference satisfaction. That is, whether you model practical reason as neoclassical economists do, on what might be characterized as a Humean desire-belief model, or you follow behavioral economists in eliciting the inherent cognitive biases which interfere with our preference satisfaction, you isolate the question of morality from the discipline of economic inquiry. This first shows up in both schools’ attempt to provide a value-free and predictive account of economic science.
In this paper I would like to offer an alternative understanding of economics that is informed by a pragmatic account of social science. On this understanding it is not only the case that, as pragmatic philosophers from Charles Sanders Peirce to Hilary Putnam have argued, facts and values are inextricably intertwined in the practice of all science. Additionally, according to the pragmatic view on offer here, sciences take their cue from the Aristotelian dictum that we should order our method and the goal of our inquiries to the object we are trying to understand. In addition, however, pragmatism offers a general theory of inquiry as problem solving. It follows from this hybrid of object specific methods and a problem-solving aim that if what we are trying to solve are not just problems of physics, for instance, but also the frustration of values and interests of human beings, the inquiry itself will take on a moral character. Thus, from the pragmatic view on offer in this paper, economics cannot help but be a moral science as issues of labor, distribution, inequality and scarce resources affect the flourishing of the human species, and much more broadly, the flourishing of species on the planet. Once economics is redrawn in this way, and the pretensions of economics to be a ‘science’ modeled on the natural scientific goals of explanation and prediction are reconstructed, the question ‘What is economics for? ‘ might be given a morally and epistemologically robust answer.
However, as a now well-told story in philosophical accounts of economics has it, while positivism and specifically the philosophy of science embodied in logical empiricism fell upon hard times in the mid-twentieth century and was bypassed, the mainstream practitioners of economics of at least two schools seemed to ignore entirely the failure of positivism to account for a variety of its own aims. These failures reproduced themselves in neoclassical economics in terms of explanation, the irrational choices agents make, and a consistent failure to generate models which would predict aggregate market behavior. Behavioral economics took these failures as their starting point in reintroducing irrationality into their understanding of human decisions and now stands as a major contender for explanatory adequacy in providing economics with better scientific grounds for its intellectual project. It also has gained greater political traction in terms of policy.
However, the question of the relation of values intrinsic to the practice of science to the descriptions generated by that scientific activity still remains outside the organon of these two major schools of economic thought. This exclusion shows up in two ways. First, both schools basically accept that the end of human activity is the realization of individual preferences. On the neoclassical model, this involves the cost-benefit analysis of an internal algorithm that calculates action based upon given preferences and available information regarding means to satisfy those preferences. Behavioral economics introduces paternalistic interventions at the level of policy prescriptions to overcome the irrationality of individuals in the choices they make to satisfy their preferences. Agents exhibit irrationality stemming from a variety of sources including cognitive biases and framing effects that lead to choices which do not maximize utility. Thus both see action, and economically informed policy as a means for preference satisfaction. That is, whether you model practical reason as neoclassical economists do, on what might be characterized as a Humean desire-belief model, or you follow behavioral economists in eliciting the inherent cognitive biases which interfere with our preference satisfaction, you isolate the question of morality from the discipline of economic inquiry. This first shows up in both schools’ attempt to provide a value-free and predictive account of economic science.
In this paper I would like to offer an alternative understanding of economics that is informed by a pragmatic account of social science. On this understanding it is not only the case that, as pragmatic philosophers from Charles Sanders Peirce to Hilary Putnam have argued, facts and values are inextricably intertwined in the practice of all science. Additionally, according to the pragmatic view on offer here, sciences take their cue from the Aristotelian dictum that we should order our method and the goal of our inquiries to the object we are trying to understand. In addition, however, pragmatism offers a general theory of inquiry as problem solving. It follows from this hybrid of object specific methods and a problem-solving aim that if what we are trying to solve are not just problems of physics, for instance, but also the frustration of values and interests of human beings, the inquiry itself will take on a moral character. Thus, from the pragmatic view on offer in this paper, economics cannot help but be a moral science as issues of labor, distribution, inequality and scarce resources affect the flourishing of the human species, and much more broadly, the flourishing of species on the planet. Once economics is redrawn in this way, and the pretensions of economics to be a ‘science’ modeled on the natural scientific goals of explanation and prediction are reconstructed, the question ‘What is economics for? ‘ might be given a morally and epistemologically robust answer.
Research Interests: Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and 15 morePragmatism, Social Sciences, Democratic Theory, Rational Choice, Philosophy Of Economics, Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Social Science, Behavioral Economics, John Dewey, Democracy, Pragmatism (Philosophy), Social and Political Philosophy, Economy, American Pragmatism, and Positivism
This is the schedule of upcoming public lectures that accompany the Department of Conflict and Development Studies doctoral seminar.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and 30 moreSocial Sciences, Political Theory, Interdisciplinarity, Social sciences and values, Democratic Theory, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Political Science, History of Social Sciences, Dewey, Deliberative Democracy, Philosophy of Social Science, John Dewey, Democracy, New Models Of Participatory And Direct Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Radical Democracy, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sciences sociales, Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Social and political science, History of Philosophy, Social Science and Political Science, Deliberative Democracy and Conflict, Social Science, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
This lecture reviews the original 'pragmatic turn' in philosophical thinking and draws out the consequences for social sciences and political theory. This lecture forms part of a public lecture series that runs in connection with the... more
This lecture reviews the original 'pragmatic turn' in philosophical thinking and draws out the consequences for social sciences and political theory.
This lecture forms part of a public lecture series that runs in connection with the Doctoral School course "Pragmatism for Social Scientists: Histories, Criticisms & Opportunities". International guest speakers who will be leading seminar sessions in the Pragmatism course will also give a public lecture to present their own work.
Brendan Hogan (The New School for Social Research, PhD) is Clinical Associate Professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. He specializes in pragmatic philosophy, philosophy of social science and political philosophy. His work explores questions about the normative status of democracy and the relationship between imagination, critique, and human agency. His latest publications focus on the late pragmatist philosopher Hilary Putnam and the critique of the forms of economic rationality at the basis of certain models of mainstream economics.
This lecture forms part of a public lecture series that runs in connection with the Doctoral School course "Pragmatism for Social Scientists: Histories, Criticisms & Opportunities". International guest speakers who will be leading seminar sessions in the Pragmatism course will also give a public lecture to present their own work.
Brendan Hogan (The New School for Social Research, PhD) is Clinical Associate Professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. He specializes in pragmatic philosophy, philosophy of social science and political philosophy. His work explores questions about the normative status of democracy and the relationship between imagination, critique, and human agency. His latest publications focus on the late pragmatist philosopher Hilary Putnam and the critique of the forms of economic rationality at the basis of certain models of mainstream economics.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Social Sciences, and 39 morePolitical Theory, Philosophy of Education, Democratic Theory, Political Science, History of Social Sciences, Politics, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Dewey, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Deliberative Democracy, Public Sphere, Philosophy of Social Science, Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, Democracy, Direct Democracy, Critique, Participatory Democracy, Pragmatism (Philosophy), George Herbert Mead, Social and Political Philosophy, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Charles Sanders Peirce, Radical Democracy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Democracy, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, American Pragmatism, Community of Inquiry, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Philosophy of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of Social Sciences, History of Philosophy, Social Science, and Philosophy of (Social) Science
One of the great challenges of political movements consists not only in answering the question “What is to be done?” but inflecting the response to that question with an understanding of “What can be done?” How we address the problems of... more
One of the great challenges of political movements consists
not only in answering the question “What is to be done?” but
inflecting the response to that question with an understanding
of “What can be done?”
How we address the problems of the present in a creative
fashion is at the heart of the philosophy of pragmatism. The
responses to the above questions are additionally motivated
however, by a deep commitment to the norms of democracy
as the method of transformation. This lecture draws out this
pragmatic response by emphasizing the social dimension of
imagination and the role of aesthetic reflection in articulating
the obstacles to, and endpoints of, emancipation.
not only in answering the question “What is to be done?” but
inflecting the response to that question with an understanding
of “What can be done?”
How we address the problems of the present in a creative
fashion is at the heart of the philosophy of pragmatism. The
responses to the above questions are additionally motivated
however, by a deep commitment to the norms of democracy
as the method of transformation. This lecture draws out this
pragmatic response by emphasizing the social dimension of
imagination and the role of aesthetic reflection in articulating
the obstacles to, and endpoints of, emancipation.