Contemporary Pragmatism

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    Hickman, Buddhism, and Algorithmic Technology.Jim Garrison - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):118-139.
    This paper is a further reflection on my dialogue with Larry Hickman, director emeritus of the Center for Dewey Studies, and Daisaku Ikeda, president of the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International (sgi). One surprising outcome of this dialogue is how similar Deweyan pragmatism is to many forms of Mahayana Buddhism such as sgi. Here I survey some similarities between Hickman’s philosophy of technology and Buddhism by emphasizing value creation and criticism. (Soka Gakkai means value creating society.) I then explore (...)
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    Technologies and Sustainability – Challenges for Democracy and Education in Our Time.Stefan Neubert & Kersten Reich - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):14-37.
    In this essay, we discuss some urgent challenges for democracy and education in the Deweyan sense in connection with current developments of technologies and questions of sustainability. We proceed in four major parts, following the systematic distinction of four mutually interrelated levels of technologies in culture found in the late work of Michel Foucault. In part 1, we focus on the technologies of production. We connect Foucault’s perspective with more recent research on questions of social inequality and the production and (...)
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    Hickman and Dewey: Naturalism’s Hope?Herman J. Saatkamp - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):1-13.
    Larry Hickman has fostered his own analysis, explication and application of Dewey’s philosophy as well as overseen the critical edition of John Dewey’s works at the Center for Dewey Studies. In America our democracy is struggling, making Hickman’s scholarly work even more important. I attempt to explain some of Hickman’s use of Dewey’s philosophy to address current issues that include the roles of religion and education in American democracy. Much of Hickman’s pragmatic naturalism provides hope for democracy as a way (...)
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    Neuropragmatic Tools for Neurotechnological Culture: Toward a Creatively Democratic Cybernetics of Care.Tibor Solymosi - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):77-117.
    I address the problem of caring for our body-mind through neuropragmatism, cybernetics, and Larry Hickman’s work on John Dewey and the philosophy of technology. The problems of body-mind health are related to Emma Dowling’s The Care Crisis. I address this crisis by drawing on Jay Schulkin’s conception of viability as the creative tension between stability and precarity. From this, I extend body-mind health to questions of democracy, leading to the proposal of body-mind-world as an elaboration of neuropragmatism’s evolutionary and ecological (...)
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    Ethics in the Innovation Process: Some Unaddressed Issues for Pragmatists.Paul B. Thompson - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):53-76.
    There are now dozens of proposals for integrating ethics into the early planning and assessment of technological innovation. This paper tracks some of Larry Hickman’s contributions to these trends. While Hickman’s suggestions could be incorporated into virtually many of the new proposals for integrating ethics into technological research, development and dissemination, barriers remain. In this paper, I will explores some reasons why the field remains fragmented, emphasizing weaknesses in the pragmatist approach. First, I acknowledge the significance of obvious explanations: the (...)
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    Philosophical Tools for Educational Culture: Reconstructing Data and Assessment Practices.Mark Tschaepe - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):140-149.
    Assessment practices have come to dominate much of formalized education, especially within the United States. Currently, learning analytics (la) and educational data mining (edm) are purported by many educational companies and institutions to successfully improve learning through what are often considered as objective collection, classification, and analysis of educational data. Enthusiasm about big data in education has contributed to the naturalization of datafication within the field. Educational data is regarded as a natural resource that exists ‘out there’ to be mined (...)
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    Bibliometrics and Qualitative Assessment: a Pragmatist Approach.Leonard Waks & Eli Orner Kramer - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):150-168.
    In this essay we explore whether and how we should use bibliometrics in hiring, promoting, and granting in the academy. We suggest a Deweyan-Hickmanian pragmatist approach to reflecting on the technology of bibliometrics as a resource for inherently qualitative judgements in these deliberations. We begin with a literature review of current work evaluating the role and use of bibliometrics in the academy, from advocating for them to questioning their construct validity and assessing their limitations and/or dangerous consequences. In the next (...)
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    Education for Technological Threats to Democracy.Eric Thomas Weber - 2023 - Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2):38-52.
    This paper examines Larry A. Hickman’s warnings about the dangers of algorithmic technologies for democracy and then considers educational policy initiatives that are important for combatting such threats over the long term. John Dewey’s philosophy is considered both in Hickman’s work and in this paper’s review of what Dewey called the “Supreme Intellectual Obligation.” Dewey’s insights highlight crucial tasks necessary and called for with respect to education to value and appreciate the sciences and what they can do to serve humanity. (...)
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