Experience, Language, and Behavior in Pragmatism: A Response to Voparil’s Reconstructing Pragmatism

Contemporary Pragmatism 19 (4):417-429 (2022)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Chris Voparil’s Reconstructing Pragmatism builds the best case to date that the neopragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty decisively and productively reshaped the lineage of pragmatist philosophy. In developing new directions for pragmatism, the book seeks to press past a number of recent debates. One such debate concerns the relative priority of experience and language as methodological starting points for pragmatist philosophy. While Voparil seeks to abandon this debate as outworn, this review argues that the issue of pragmatism’s methodological apparatus cannot be easily set aside. Only by addressing head-on the disadvantages of experience-first pragmatism and language-first pragmatism can a next iteration of pragmatist philosophy properly develop a third methodological option, tantalizingly noted by Voparil, of a practice-first pragmatism.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Language and Experience for Pragmatism.Cheryl Misak - 2014 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2).
Language is a form of experience: Reconciling classical pragmatism and neopragmatism.Colin Koopman - 2007 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4):694 - 727.
Pragmatism and Justice.Susan Dieleman, David Rondel & Christopher J. Voparil (eds.) - 2017 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Introduction: Perspectives on Pragmatism and Justice.Dieleman Susan, David Rondel & Cristopher Voparil - 2017 - In Susan Dieleman, David Rondel & Christopher Voparil (eds.), Pragmatism and Justice. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-17.
Pragmatism a guide for the perplexed.Robert B. Talisse & Scott F. Aikin - 2008 - London, UK: Continuum. Edited by Scott F. Aikin.
A Trilemma for Voparil. [REVIEW]Raff Donelson - 2022 - Contemporary Pragmatism 19 (4):410-416.
Experiencing Language: What’s Missing in Linguistic Pragmatism?Mark Johnson - 2014 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2).

Analytics

Added to PP
2022-11-20

Downloads
10 (#1,021,691)

6 months
3 (#439,232)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Colin Koopman
University of Oregon

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Empiricism and the philosophy of mind.Wilfrid Sellars - 1956 - Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1:253-329.
Pragmatism, Pluralism and the Healing of Wounds.Richard J. Bernstein - 1989 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 63 (3):5 - 18.
Conduct Pragmatism: Pressing Beyond Experientialism and Lingualism.Colin Koopman - 2014 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (2).
Introduction: Perspectives on Pragmatism and Justice.Dieleman Susan, David Rondel & Cristopher Voparil - 2017 - In Susan Dieleman, David Rondel & Christopher Voparil (eds.), Pragmatism and Justice. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-17.

View all 8 references / Add more references