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Pragmatic Faith: Oxymoron? Maybe Not. (Part Three)
I hope to have shown over the past two entries that pragmatic faith is not something beyond our grasp; that it is not something ridiculous or impossible. But now that we have seen that such a thing is… more »
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Ugly ogres: beware of beautiful voices talking on your behalf
ethnicrhino wrote 6 days ago: We keep on with Jonathan Swift. In this piece I have decided to shortcircuit with Shrek 2. Find als … more »
Persky on Rorty
hysperia wrote 2 weeks ago: Part of an excellent essay by Stan Persky on Richard Rorty: [...] Among his generation, [Richard] … more »
Entertainment and the novel
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Jake Seliger wrote 3 weeks ago: “Entertaining” is often thrown around and almost never defined, and its implicit definit … more »
Review of Joan Huber's (1995) ASA Centennial Essay
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 month ago: Review of Joan Huber’s 1995 Centennial Essay for the American Sociological Association JoanHub … more »
Fight moth fight
ethnicrhino wrote 1 month ago: Here I follow Slavoj Zizek (and Mao Tse-Tung). Read it carefully. It may seem heavy-going and compl … more »
Geuss on Rorty
eamonnmcdonagh wrote 2 months ago: By way of here, I’ve come across a very interesting essay by Raymond Geuss about Richard Rorty … more »
Sociology of ideas
manwithoutqualities wrote 2 months ago: This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s in … more »
Consequences of Pragmatism (introduction)
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Roman Archive wrote 3 months ago: I. True universal applications are necessarily a bit sticky in detail. Certain pragmatists do attemp … more »
Richard Rorty on Liberal theology
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thebrooks wrote 3 months ago: Here’s an interesting excerpt from an interview Michael Horton did with now deceased Stanford post … more »
Dialogue to Solve Cross Cultural Problems
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Todd wrote 4 months ago: This issue has come up twice for me over the past couple weeks. First, I was re-reading my doctoral … more »
The Contingency of Language
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orestesmantra wrote 4 months ago: I love Richard Rorty. A lot. That is why I am devoting this post to quoting some juicy sections from … more »
Pragmatic Faith: Oxymoron? Maybe Not. (Part Three)
sgshaw wrote 5 months ago: I hope to have shown over the past two entries that pragmatic faith is not something beyond our gras … more »
Pragmatic Faith: Oxymoron? Maybe Not. (Part Two)
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sgshaw wrote 5 months ago: Is it possible to have pragmatic faith? This was the question we asked ourselves in part one of this … more »
Pragmatic Faith: Oxymoron? Maybe Not. (Part One)
sgshaw wrote 5 months ago: Generally, faith is conceived of as something outside of us. Our faith is a link to the ‘outside … more »
What is Pragmatism?
sgshaw wrote 5 months ago: The word ‘Pragmatism’ doesn’t sound like a school of philosophical thought. It sounds m … more »
Not So Neutral
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Fraiser wrote 6 months ago: This post has been sitting incomplete in my writing files for more than a year. I just needed a rea … more »
The Atheists are Coming (Gasp...!)
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Steven Nickeson wrote 6 months ago: The two, hour-long videos of Hitchens, Dennett, Dawkins and Harris talking on atheism are making the … more »
No such thing
Drew wrote 10 months ago: “I was recently reading the works of contemporary scholars such as Michel Foucault, Richard Ro … more »
Jürgen Habermas writes an obiturary for American philosopher Richard Rorty
acrobat83 wrote 10 months ago: Asked at the end of his life about the “holy”, the strict atheist answered with words re … more »
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