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Piacente, Albert. "Pragmatism and the Importance of Truth." Contemporary Pragmatism 18, no. 3 (November 10, 2021): 223–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10013.
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Abstract This paper develops a position I call “apathetic pragmatism.” Apathetic pragmatism is a form of pragmatism that, through advocating “apathy” about the topic of truth, avoids the troubled identification of utility and truth found in classical and neo pragmatist theories of truth. Initially explored by Stephen Stich, I argue Stich’s case for apathetic pragmatism relies upon a theory of truth that causes vicious circularity. I then pursue a different route to apathetic pragmatism, one that sees apathetic pragmatism as a “paradigm shift” in relation to previous forms of pragmatism. It is a paradigm shift where pragmatism becomes a normative view concerning the questions that are necessary to ask, not an attempt to answer questions assumed necessary.
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Pfeffer, Carla A. "Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism." Gender & Society 26, no. 4 (June 13, 2012): 574–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243212445467.
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Wretzel, Joshua. "Normative Pragmatism, Interpretationism, and Discursive Recognition." Journal of Philosophical Research 42 (2017): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jpr20171017119.
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Frega, Roberto. "Pragmatism and democracy in a global world." Review of International Studies 43, no. 4 (March 20, 2017): 720–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210517000080.
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AbstractThis article discusses the advantages of a pragmatist theory of global democracy for understanding the political relevance of new phenomena such as the emergence of forms of private authority and transnational movements in tackling with global issues. The article shows in particular that the pragmatist notion of ‘publics’ offers promising insights and proves particularly promising for completing the transition from methodological nationalism to methodological cosmopolitanism that is required to understand new normative practices developing at the global level and to inquire into their conditions of validity. After having presented a basic outline of the pragmatist theory of democracy, I discuss the contribution of pragmatism to the critique of methodological nationalism and proceed then to examine and reject two alternative approaches to global politics – transnational public sphere theory and global representation theory – showing why they fail to overcome methodological nationalism. The last two sections explore private entrepreneurial authority in contexts of global governance and shows that pragmatism succeeds in explaining their political role, while the other two approaches fail.
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Medeiros, Tiago. "PRAGMATISMO E INSTITUIÇÕES: TRÊS ABORDAGENS / PRAGMATISM AND INSTITUTIONS: THREE APPROACHES." RFD- Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UERJ, no. 41 (December 21, 2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/rfd.2022.71432.
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Resumo: O tema deste texto é a relação entre pragmatismo e instituições. O argumento é conduzido pela coleta de pistas histórico-filosóficas em posse das quais são sustentáveis três leituras pragmatistas sobre o fenômeno das instituições. Cada leitura é uma abordagem normativa aplicável à institucionalidade existente. A primeira abordagem sugere a apologia das instituições convencionais, admitidas como acervo organizativo exemplar de uma sociedade livre e justa. A segunda abordagem enfatiza a transgressão aos arranjos institucionais vigentes, denunciados por seu conservadorismo residual, que precisaria ser enfrentado pela ação potencializada – inclusive, no limite, a do “homem providencial”. A terceira tendência indica um caminho de equilíbrio entre a mobilização individual e coletiva e o corpo de instituições formais hodiernas, visando mobilizar a sociedade politicamente pela sua reconstrução, sem desmerecer o sentido e a utilidade das instituições que a compõem e articulam. O painel tipológico com que essas abordagens são construídas é preenchido por passagens textuais de notáveis filósofos pragmatistas que as confirmam ou as respaldam indiretamente.Palavras-chave: Pragmatismo. Instituições. Sociedade. Ação. Abstract: This text has as its theme the relation between pragmatism and institutions. The argument is guided by some historical-philosophical tips with which three pragmatist interpretations of institutional phenomenon are possible. Each of them is a normative approach which is applicable to the current institutionality. The first one suggests the apology of the conventional institutions, by considering them the emblematic organizative collection of a free and fair society. The second approach focus on the transgression of the current institutional arrangements, which are denounced by its residual conservativism what should be faced by the human potentiated action – even that from the “providential man”. The third perspective shows a path that balances individual and collective mobilization with formal institutions, by aiming to make society politically mobilized without belittling the existent institutions whereby a reconstructive agenda. The typological panel of these approaches is confirmed or indirectly supported by some textual fragments of notable pragmatists.Keywords: Pragmatism. Institutions. Society. Action.
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Ho, Tsung-Hsing. "Evidentialists’ Internalist Argument for Pragmatism." Logos & Episteme 12, no. 4 (2021): 427–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme202112433.
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A popular evidentialist argument against pragmatism is based on reason internalism: the view that a normative reason for one to φ must be able to guide one in normative deliberation whether to φ. In the case of belief, this argument maintains that, when deliberating whether to believe p, one must deliberate whether p is true. Since pragmatic considerations cannot weigh in our deliberation whether p, the argument concludes that pragmatism is false. I argue that evidentialists fail to recognize that the question whether to φ is essentially the question whether one should φ. Furthermore, the question of whether one should believe p can be answered on pragmatic grounds. The internalist argument turns out to favor pragmatism.
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Lamb, Robert. "Pragmatism, practices, and human rights." Review of International Studies 45, no. 04 (March 26, 2019): 550–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210519000111.
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AbstractThis article is an intervention in recent debates about conceptual and normative theorisations of human rights, which have been increasingly characterised by a divide between ‘moral’ and ‘practice-based’/’political’ understandings. My aim is to articulate an alternative, pragmatist understanding of human rights, one that is importantly distinct from the practice-based account with which it might be thought affiliated. In the first part of the article, I reveal the fundamental flaw in the practice-based account of human rights: I argue that it is undermined by the ontological thesis at its heart, which naturalises and reifies political arrangements and institutions that are radically contingent. In the second part, I identify, and outline the attractiveness of, a pragmatist normative account of human rights. In contrast to the practice-based approach, this pragmatist account construes human rights in ideational terms. The pragmatist understanding accepts both the contingency of our practices and the cultural limits to moral justification, while nevertheless retaining a commitment to the enterprise of normative philosophical conversation. I argue, in contrast to prevailing interpretations, that the international theory advanced by John Rawls exemplifies a pragmatist account of human rights and points a way forward for theoretically fruitful but appropriately circumscribed analysis of the concept.
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Kolman, Vojtěch. "Normative Pragmatism and the Language Game of Music." Contemporary Pragmatism 11, no. 2 (April 21, 2014): 147–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-90000295.
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Lederman, Zohar, and Benjamin Capps. "One health ethics: a response to pragmatism." Journal of Medical Ethics 46, no. 9 (February 19, 2020): 632–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105859.
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Johnson and Degeling have recently enquired whether one health (OH) requires a comprehensive normative framework, concluding that such a framework, while not necessary, may be helpful. In this commentary, we provide a context for this debate, and describe how pragmatism has been predominant in the OH literature. We nevertheless argue that articulating a comprehensive normative theory to ground OH practice might clear existing vagueness and provide stronger guidance in relevant health dilemmas. A comprehensive theory will also be needed eventually to ground notions such as universal good. We, thus, call for the systematic articulation of a comprehensive, metaethical theory, concomitantly with already ongoing normative work.
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Koopman, Colin. "Genealogical Pragmatism: How History Matters for Foucault and Dewey." Journal of the Philosophy of History 5, no. 3 (2011): 533–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226311x599943.
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Abstract This article offers the outlines of a historically-informed conception of critical inquiry herein named genealogical pragmatism. This conception of critical inquiry combines the genealogical emphasis on problematization featured in Michel Foucault’s work with the pragmatist emphasis on reconstruction featured in John Dewey’s work. The two forms of critical inquiry featured by these thinkers are not opposed, as is too commonly supposed. Genealogical problematization and pragmatist reconstruction fit together for reason of their mutual emphasis on the importance of history for philosophy. In so fitting together they repair crucial deficits in both traditions as they currently stand on their own (namely, genealogy’s normative deficit and pragmatism’s excessive instrumentalism). The resulting conception of critical inquiry as simultaneously problematizational and reconstructive is offered as a first step toward a crucial philosophical task we face today: articulating normativity without foundations.
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WOOD, STEVE. "Energy Security, Normative Dilemmas, and Institutional Camouflage: Europe's Pragmatism." Politics & Policy 37, no. 3 (June 2009): 611–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00187.x.
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Fossen, Thomas. "Language and legitimacy: Is pragmatist political theory fallacious?" European Journal of Political Theory 18, no. 2 (April 17, 2017): 293–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885117699977.
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Eva Erman and Niklas Möller have recently criticised a range of political theorists for committing a pragmatistic fallacy, illicitly drawing normative conclusions from politically neutral ideas about language. This paper examines their critique with respect to one of their primary targets: the pragmatist approach to political legitimacy that I proposed in earlier work, which draws on Robert Brandom’s theory of language. I argue that the charge relies on a misrepresentation of the role of pragmatist ideas about language in my analysis of legitimacy. Pragmatism’s significance for thinking about political legitimacy does not lie in the normative conclusions it justifies but in the way it reorients our thinking towards political practice. This raises the deeper question of what we are to expect from a theory of legitimacy. I argue that Erman and Möller presuppose a widely held but unduly restrictive conception of what a normative theory of legitimacy consists in and that pragmatism can broaden the scope of enquiry: a theory of legitimacy should not focus narrowly on the content and justification of criteria, but more fundamentally aim to explicate the forms of political activity in which such criteria are at stake.
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Fuller, LaJuan Perronoski. "Normative Legitimacy Management and the Expansion of Purpose-Driven Workforces through Organizational Identity." International Business Research 15, no. 6 (May 12, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v15n6p1.
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Social-political legitimacy requires leaders to do things right (normative legitimacy) and correctly (regulatory legitimacy). However, it is more challenging to manage normative legitimacy in diverse organizations. Leaders use normative legitimacy to help align organizational values to the social environment in which it operates. The ability to manage normative behaviors is an ethical virtue and may establish a link with organizational identity. This research applies the leadership ethics and decision-making (LEAD) model. The LEAD model suggests that employee perception of ethics requires leaders to conduct an outward examination of their decisions using integrity, assurance, and pragmatism. Previous research suggests that the LEAD model may act as an ethical guide to "doing things right" and potentially fill the gap in managing normative legitimacy by influencing organizational identity. The results conclude that outward examinations account for employee perceptions and that the LEAD model is a suitable ethical leadership concept. Integrity, assurance, and pragmatism have significant positive relationships with and predict organizational identity. The findings reveal that the LEAD model discerns ethical leadership behavior, appropriately manages normative legitimacy, and creates a purpose-driven workforce by developing organizational identity.
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Duran, Jane. "The Intersection of Pragmatism and Feminism." Hypatia 8, no. 2 (1993): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00097.x.
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I cite areas of pragmatism and feminism that have an intersection with or an appeal to the other, including the notions of the universal and/or normative, and foundationalist lines in general. I deal with three areas from each perspective and develop the notion of their intersection. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of a pragmatic view for women's lives and the importance of psychoanalytic theory for finding another area where pragmatism and feminism mesh.
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Margolis, Joshua D. "Psychological Pragmatism and the Imperative of Aims: A New Approach for business Ethics." Business Ethics Quarterly 8, no. 3 (July 1998): 409–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3857429.
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Abstract:Psychological forces in play across individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis increase the likelihood that people in business organizations will engage in misconduct. Therefore, it is argued, we must turn our attention from dominant normative and empirical trends in business ethics, which revolve around boundaries and constraints, and instead concentrate on methods for promoting ethical behavior in practice, exploiting psychological forces conducive to ethical conduct. This calls for a better understanding of how organizations and their inhabitants function, and, in turn, it points to pragmatic solutions. Ethical conduct can be promoted by (1) normatively justifying vivid aims worthy of pursuit alongside economic objectives, and (2) empirically identifying the conditions and practices that advance those aims in firms. This approach challenges us to bring empirical and normative inquiry together—in ways unsettling to both. It pushes us to move beyond an empirical preoccupation with decision making and judgment, and it requires us to cope with political liberalism’s legitimate qualms about discussions of the good.
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Furlong, Kathryn, Marie-Noëlle Carré, and Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero. "Urban service provision: Insights from pragmatism and ethics." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 12 (October 2, 2017): 2800–2812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17734547.
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In their work and life, urban service providers are continually torn between policies and pressures from higher scales and the realities of the cities they inhabit. The ways in which they negotiate these tensions imply the complex adjudication of a range of normative issues, conditioned by the variety of socio-technical, political, and economic factors that are underscored in the literature. In this way, geographical debates on pragmatism and ethics have an important, yet largely overlooked, contribution to make to the study of urban services. These approaches can promote the careful consideration of how people engaged in service provision manage such complexity – including its normative dimensions – through their long-term embodied experience. Pragmatic and related ethical perspectives necessarily contextualize decision-making, taking us beyond ideology or institutional exigencies to debates about practical reason, everyday ethics and embodied practice.
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Zimmermann, Bénédicte. "From Critical Theory to Critical Pragmatism: Capability and the Assessment of Freedom." Critical Sociology 44, no. 6 (February 14, 2017): 937–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920517691107.
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This article discusses the implications of the double dimension of the capability concept, which is simultaneously normative and descriptive, in sustaining a critical approach toward freedom. Capability may provide a key concept for critical theory. It may also fuel critical pragmatism as anchored in committed empirical inquiry. Building on John Dewey’s pragmatist account, the article advocates a critical approach that is as much a matter of conceptual yardstick as of empirical inquiry. Taking reforms in the area of French continuing vocational training as a case in point, it demonstrates the analytical and critical power, when it comes to the idea of freedom, of a capability approach confronting three levels of inquiry that are usually investigated separately: the institutional (public policy) level, the organizational (in this case company) level, and the individual (biographical) level.
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Seeberg, Peter. "European Neighbourhood Policy, Post-normativity, and Pragmatism." European Foreign Affairs Review 15, Issue 5 (December 1, 2010): 663–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eerr2010047.
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This article offers a comparative analysis of the European Union (EU)’s agreements and institutional links with Jordan and Lebanon within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). This article suggests that the ENP agreements can be termed pragmatic bilateralism, claiming that the EU has altered its foreign policy agenda from a policy with an emphasis on democracy promotion to a post-normative and pragmatic, bilateral agenda. Drawing on a neoinstitutionalist framework (focusing on ‘rules, routines, norms and identities’), this article argues that the different conditions for the relations between the EU and Jordan and Lebanon, respectively, in principle should have consequences in the sense that the EU would be expected not to implement similar policies or engage the two Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regimes in a similar manner. However, the complexity of the scenarios in Jordan and Lebanon in combination with the regional and international dimensions of the recent situation in the Middle East instead leads the EU to pursue post-normative and pragmatic policies characterized by more or less identical wording and non-committal goals. A certain uniformity of the EU’s ENP agreements can thus be explained by a deliberate vagueness, emphasizing the pragmatism of the EU’s ENP policies.
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Ibri, Ivo Assad. "CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE O ESTATUTO DA ÉTICA NO PRAGMATISMO DE CHARLES S. PEIRCE." Síntese: Revista de Filosofia 29, no. 93 (June 16, 2010): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.20911/21769389v29n93p117-123/2002.
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Pretende-se mostrar que a máxima do Pragmatismo de Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), entendida usualmente pelos estudiosos como um princípio de lógica ou de análise do significado de sistemas teóricos, envolve principalmente um princípio para uma ciência da conduta, fazendo com que se justifique que a Lógica ou Semiótica dependa diretamente da Ética, conforme o quadro hierárquico, preconizado pelo autor, das Ciências ditas Normativas no interior da classificação das ciências que integram a Filosofia. Realça-se também a complexidade do tema, ainda pouco explorado pelos comentaristas da obra do autor.Abstract: This paper aims to show that the Charles S. Peirce’s (1839-1914) maxim of Pragmatism, usually understood by the scholars as a logical principle or a principle of analysis of theoretical systems, involves primary a principle to a science of conduct, giving sense to the dependence of Logic or Semiotics on Ethics, accordingly the author’s hierarchical ranking of Normative Sciences within the classification of sciences in Philosophy. It’s also emphasized the complexity of a theme, yet so little studied by the author’s work commentators.
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Motyka, Marek A., and Ahmed Al-Imam. "Pragmatism of the Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship." Global Journal of Health Science 12, no. 6 (April 27, 2020): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v12n6p119.
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people addicted to alcohol, who share their experience from the period of drinking, but who primarily have ongoing personal struggles with unstable emotions, a disintegrated value system, broken social ties, and other consequences of their old lifestyle. Participants of AA meetings provide mutual support at every stage of recovery and gain hope for improvement in their situation. Acceptance and implementation of the principles of the AA Programme promote recovery and improvement in all areas of life. It helps achieve physical health, emotional stability and better social relations, and creates a stable normative system. Joining the AA Fellowship is very useful for almost every member. The principles and objectives of the AA Fellowship were inspired by American pragmatism. The article presents the constitutive features of this philosophical trend, the inspirations which the founders of the AA Fellowship followed, and data supporting the usefulness of the 12 Steps of AA in recovery from alcoholism.
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Vo, Linh Chi. "Bridging the Empirical-Normative Split in Business Ethics Research: John Dewey’s Pragmatism." Academy of Management Proceedings 2018, no. 1 (August 2018): 10766. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.10766abstract.
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Nowak, Ewa. "Wittgenstein: od etyki do ślepego stosowania reguł i z powrotem." ETHICS IN PROGRESS 9, no. 2 (February 8, 2019): 131–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/eip.2018.2.10.
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The paper discusses Wittgenstein’s approaches to ethics within two contrastive contexts, e.g., pragmatism and cooperative-discursive normative practice. The first section revisits the fiasco of his early “negative” ethics. The second section subsequently shows how Wittgenstein’s mature concept of blind rule-following displaces normativity but simultaneously becomes the key predictor for discourse ethics (or, rather, a specific kind of it). The final section discusses the pros and cons of finitism in the light of contemporary philosophy of mind. As a conclusion, the author provides evidence for her hypothesis that there is no normative (embodied) mind without a manifest normative competence, which includes moral judgment and discursive competence.
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Popa, Elena. "Concepts of Biodiversity, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: The Case of Walnut Forest Conservation in Central Asia." SATS 23, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sats-2021-0017.
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Abstract This paper examines philosophical debates about concepts of biodiversity, making the case for conceptual pluralism. Taking a pragmatist perspective, I argue that normative concepts of biodiversity and eco-centric concepts of biodiversity can serve different purposes. The former would help stress the values of local communities, which have often been neglected by both early scientific approaches to conservation, and by policy makers prioritizing the political or economic interests of specific groups. The latter would help build local research programs independent of pressures from economic or political actors. I employ a case study on environmental research on walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan in support of my argument. Against tendencies to frame different understandings of biodiversity in terms of geographical areas, I propose an interpretation drawing on the philosophy of ecology. Adherence to environmental pragmatism enables a sufficiently complex picture of developing environmental research in the area, capturing issues about scientific framings and local understandings.
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Andrejč, Gorazd. "Religiozni moralni jeziki, sekularnost in hermenevtična nepravičnost ▪︎ Religious Moral Languages, Secularity, and Hermeneutical Injustice." Stati inu obstati, revija za vprašanja protestantizma 17, no. 34 (December 20, 2021): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.26493/2590-9754.17(34)223-246.
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As a philosophical approach to public moral discourse in a religiously plural society, Jeffrey Stout’s “modest pragmatism” has received a mixed response from the opposite sides of the secularism debate. While many political theologians and communitarians claim that Stout concedes too much to the secularists, some secularists find Stout’s inclusive approach towards religious reasonings in public discourse all too “theological.” This essay offers a re-examination and a further analysis of modest pragmatism in the light of recent work in epistemology of democracy (especially Anderson’s interpretation of Dewey’s inclusive and experimental democracy), and discourse ethics based on Jose Medina’s theory of hermeneutical (in)justice. I argue that Stout’s normative vision of public moral discourse is persuasive only if certain principles which Stout either affirms or presupposes – a strong principle of religious freedom, a democratic principle of inclusion and a principle to settle disputes discursively and non-violently – are placed in its centre and developed further than they have been in Stout’s own work. This also means that I apply the aforementioned theories – Medina’s theory of hermeneutical (in)justice in particular – to the question which they do not address, namely: how can and should different religious languages be included in public moral deliberation? The result is a new and stronger variant of the modest pragmatist vision of public moral discourse, and a renewed argument for a qualified secularity of such discourse.
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Czaputowicz, Jacek. "Global strategy for the EU – the end of the EU as a normative power?" Przegląd Europejski, no. 4-2016 (April 30, 2017): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.16.2.
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The article studies the consistency of the global strategy for the EU with the concept of the Union as a normative power. There are concerns, that putting interests above values could compromise the EU’s moral attractiveness. Introduction of “principled pragmatism” as a way of enhancing the resilience of states could question the promotion of democracy as an aim of foreign policy. The comparison of EU global strategy with the NATO Warsaw summit communiqué suggest the latter organisation acquires the features of normative power hitherto associated with the European Union.
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Jandric, Nikola. "Expressivism as normative social functionalism: Wittgenstein and Sellars." Theoria, Beograd 65, no. 4 (2022): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo2204017j.
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In the text it will be attempted to prove the existence of a tradition of expressivism in the form of normative social functionalism as the common denominator for the position or positions taken by the later Wittgenstein and Wilfrid Sellars in regards to questions of objectivity and normativity of lingustic meaning, presented as answers to the problem of rule following. Sellars formulates the problem of rule following at approximately the same time as does Wittgenstein. Also, Sellars? answer to this problem, as does Wittgenstein?s will call upon meaning as determined by the practices of use of lingustic expressions. It is claimed that the tradition that clusters the authors culminates in inferential pragmatism of Robert Brandom. Apart from the above, the paper also discusses the differences between the positions of the said authors, the most prominent of which is manifested in the different consequences of their contrary metaphilosophical attitudes.
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Presti, Patrizio Lo. "Ownership and First-Person Authority from a Normative Pragmatist Perspective." Contemporary Pragmatism 17, no. 4 (December 7, 2020): 268–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-17040004.
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Abstract Mental episodes are typically associated with subjective ownership and first-person authority. My belief that an apple is red is had by me; it is mine and I’m in a privileged position to know it. Your experience of red is had by you; it is yours and you are in a privileged position to know it. The two assumptions are that mental events are had by individuals to whom they occur, and that owners are in a privileged epistemic position to fallibly report their own. This paper asks how to understand ownership and first-person authority (section 1). It argues that the two assumptions should not be accepted by default (section 2). A normative pragmatism is specified, on which mental episodes are not owned, but owed to practices of reason articulation (section 3). Finally, a positive account of ownership and first-person authority is considered (section 4).
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Bohman, James. "Toward a critical theory of globalization." Concepts and Transformation 9, no. 2 (July 13, 2004): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cat.9.2.05boh.
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One of the central ideas of both Critical Theory social theory and of pragmatist theories of knowledge is that epistemic and normative claims are embedded in some practical context. This “practical turn” of epistemology is especially relevant to the social sciences, whose main practical contribution, according to pragmatism, is to supply methods for identifying and solving problems. The problem of realizing the democratic ideal under modern social conditions is not only an instance of pragmatist inspired social science, pragmatists would also argue that it is the political context for practical inquiry today, now all the more pressing with the political problems of globalization. Despite weaknesses in the pragmatist idea of social science as the reflexive practical knowledge of praxis, a pragmatic interpretation of critical social inquiry is the best way to develop such practical knowledge in a distinctly critical or democratic manner. That is, the accent shifts from the epistemic superiority of the social scientist as expert to something based on the wider social distribution of relevant practical knowledge; the missing term for such a practical synthesis is what I call “multiperspectival theory.” As an example of this sort of practical inquiry, I discuss democratic experiments involving “minipublics” and argue that they can help us think about democracy in new, transnational contexts.
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Langsdorf, Lenore. "From Interrelational Ontology to Instrumental Ethics." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20, no. 2 (2016): 112–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne20168857.
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Current human/social science research supports Don Ihde’s postphenomenology. In particular, archeology and anthropology support Ihde’s instrumental realism, and history identifies the culture that nourished Platonic and Aristotelian separation of mentality and materiality. Deweyean pragmatism, beginning with his analysis of the reflex arc, supports both instrumental realism and an interrelational ontology that rejects the residual Cartesian dualism in Husserlian phenomenology. Ihde’s acknowledgment of the affinity between postphenomenology and Deweyean pragmatism enables expanding his prevalent epistemological and structural orientation to encompass a normative dimension. Peter-Paul Verbeek’s focus on the ethical dimension of how products are designed and how things interact with humans is an important expansion of pragmatic postphenomenology as well as an expansion of current research on the “4e’s” of cognition—embedded, embodied, enacted, and extended—to include a fifth: ethical.
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Gibson, Matthew. "Pragmatism Preserved? The Challenges of Accommodating Mercy Killers in the Reformed Diminished Responsibility Plea." Journal of Criminal Law 81, no. 3 (June 2017): 177–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022018317702801.
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This article examines the operation of the reformed English diminished responsibility plea in mercy killer cases. In particular, it makes three claims. First, it predicts that—like its predecessor—the revised doctrine will be stretched, where necessary, to accommodate these offenders. This is because (i) normative arguments remain for convicting them of manslaughter instead of murder and (ii) other partial defence routes will usually be unavailable. Secondly, it contends that such pragmatism will now be facilitated by a disconnect between (i) the defence’s post-reform narrowing and (ii) its ongoing interpretive flexibility. Thirdly, given that disconnect, it suggests that this pragmatism will be problematic. Notably, it will (i) compromise the plea’s newfound coherence and (ii) exacerbate unfair labelling of mercy killers. Ultimately, and more broadly, these difficulties reinforce recent calls for further homicide law reform.
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Bohman, James. "Realizing Deliberative Democracy as a Mode of Inquiry: Pragmatism, Social Facts, and Normative Theory." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18, no. 1 (2004): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsp.2004.0002.
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HÄYRY, MATTI. "What Do You Think of Philosophical Bioethics?" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24, no. 2 (February 26, 2015): 139–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180114000449.
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Abstract:This article provides an overview of approaches to bioethics—practical and theoretical, philosophical and nonphilosophical. It is argued that those who yearn for pragmatism and real-life relevance would do well to concentrate on politics, legislation, social policy, and lobbying. Those, on the other hand, who seek knowledge about our moral thought might be interested in philosophical bioethics—in the explication of concepts, arguments, views, and normative statements.
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Ghatage, Rohan. "Beyond Understanding." James Baldwin Review 5, no. 1 (September 2019): 73–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.5.
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This essay establishes a philosophical connection between James Baldwin and the philosopher William James by investigating how the pragmatist protocol against “vicious intellectualism” offers Baldwin a key resource for thinking through how anti-black racism might be dismantled. While Richard Wright had earlier denounced pragmatism for privileging experience over knowledge, and thereby offering the black subject no means for redressing America’s constitutive hierarchies, uncovering the current of Jamesian thought that runs through Baldwin’s essays brings into view his attempt to move beyond epistemology as the primary framework for inaugurating a future unburdened by the problem of the color line. Although Baldwin indicts contemporaneous arrangements of knowledge for producing the most dehumanizing forms of racism, he does not simply attempt to rewrite the enervating meanings to which black subjects are given. Articulating a pragmatist sensibility at various stages of his career, Baldwin repeatedly suggests that the imagining and creation of a better world is predicated upon rethinking the normative value accorded to knowledge in the practice of politics. The provocative challenge that Baldwin issues for his reader is to cease the well-established privileging of knowledge, and to instead stage the struggle for freedom within an aesthetic, rather than epistemological, paradigm.
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Berman, Nadav S. "Peculiarly Interesting Disinterestedness." Journal of Jewish Ethics 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 42–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jjewiethi.8.1.0042.
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ABSTRACT This article reconsiders a specific mishnah—Avot 5:16—which praises a disinterested love, while denouncing expressions of interested love. By referring to the alleged “love” of Amnon and Tamar, Avot 5:16 equates sexuality and interestedness with incest and rape. This exegetical choice is surprising, given the pro-natal and “carnal” trajectory of biblical and talmudic traditions, which can be described as proto-pragmatist in this regard. The paper opens by defining pragmatic interestedness vis-à-vis disinterestedness, while reviewing the prevalence of disinterestedness in modern philosophy. Section 2 examines mishnah Avot 5:16 and its advocacy of disinterested ethic, while suggesting its ideational affiliation with Platonic love and with the Christian Agape. Section 3 argues that within normative-laden Jewish tradition, as well as in classical American pragmatism, we find an embodied and integrative philosophical anthropology (or pragmatic interestedness), which deeply challenges the disinterestedness paradigm of Avot 5:16. Section 4 concludes with some reflections on the relevance of this study for the research of Jewish thought and the Humanities.
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Nyman, Jonna. "What is the value of security? Contextualising the negative/positive debate." Review of International Studies 42, no. 5 (June 3, 2016): 821–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210516000140.
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AbstractReview of International Studies has seen a debate over the value of security. At its heart this is a debate about ethics: concerning the extent to which security is a ‘good’ and whether or not security politics produces the kind of world we want. More recent contributions focus on the extent to which security is ‘positive’ or ‘negative’. However, this article argues that the existing debate is limited and confusing: key authors use the terms ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ in different, and, at times, contradictory ways. The article clarifies the roots of the existing debate, and then draws out two different uses of the terms positive and negative: an analytic frame and a normative frame. In response, it proposes a pragmatist frame that synthesises the existing uses, drawing on pragmatism and practice-centred approaches to analyse the value of security in context. The contribution of the article is thus twofold: it both clarifies the existing debate and suggests a solution. This is key because the debate over the value of security is crucial to thinking about how we want to live.
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Koopman, Colin. "Unruly Pluralism and Inclusive Tolerance: The Normative Contribution of Jamesian Pragmatism to Non-ideal Theory." Political Studies Review 14, no. 1 (February 2016): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929915607887.
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Durac, Vincent. "The European Union in Yemen: The Triumph of Pragmatism over Normativity?" European Foreign Affairs Review 15, Issue 5 (December 1, 2010): 645–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eerr2010046.
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While much has been written concerning the engagement of the European Union (EU) with North Africa and the Middle East, the case of Yemen has rarely been considered. This is in spite of the perception that a ‘perfect storm’ of authoritarian rule, internal conflict, resource depletion, and radical Islamism could result in the emergence of significant regional and international security threats from the country. This paper examines the role of the EU in Yemen in the context of a series of major socio-economic and political challenges facing the country and the absence of an effective state response. The paper argues for the existence of a pragmatic core to the policies and interventions of the EU, which belies its rhetorically normative stance.
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Boller, Hannon. "Collective identity. Between essentialism, narrativism and pragmatism." Tocqueville Review 36, no. 2 (January 2015): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ttr.36.2.51.
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Stories and practices define the shared identity of a group. Both elements are not set in stone, they could be different, and they change over time. However, there are good reasons that can explain why stories and practices are what they are in a specific moment. In other words, their characteristics are neither necessary nor arbitrary. Since there is inherent controversy about the legitimacy of the reasons which support the construction, perpetuation, or removal of specific narratives and practices, collective self-conceptions grounded on narratives and practices are subject to structural instability—they are never definitive and can always be modified. This fundamentally precarious condition of collective self-characterization and habitualness cannot be eliminated because it is a direct result of the contingency of the social world. As a result, the individual members of open societies will not agree on a uniformity of evaluation practices with regards to their way of life. We need to acknowledge the plurality of values as a fact, that finds its place and Emit in an institutionaEzed normative order (legal system) that centers upon the dignity of the individual.
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Libby, Christopher J. "Rorty or Kierkegaard: Social Amelioration, Truth and the Ground of Cornel West’s Normative Commitments." International Journal of Public Theology 5, no. 2 (2011): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973211x562750.
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AbstractThis article examines the work of Cornel West as a resource for public theology. Inspired by the prophetic biblical tradition, he seeks to uphold ethical commitments to social amelioration in order to ‘let suffering speak’. However, uncertainty about the capacity of his work to serve in this way is rooted in questions about the competing sources grounding his thought. When evincing the influence of Richard Rorty’s neo-pragmatism he fails to give expression to a realist account of truth. Yet such an account is necessary to uphold a robust commitment to amelioration. His work is on surer ground and serves better as a resource for public theology when it gives expression to a Kierkegaardian realism. Such a position, which affirms the socially mediated nature of truth claims while upholding their aspiration to refer to reality, solicits a ‘renunciative’ understanding of theology that is open to social suffering and seeks its amelioration.
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Cozzaglio, Ilaria. "Legitimacy between Acceptance and Acceptability." Social Theory and Practice 48, no. 1 (2022): 61–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20211210147.
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Political realists argue that the concept of political legitimacy should be linked to subjects’ beliefs, while still offering normative guidance. In this article, I suggest doing so by referring to the concepts of acceptance and acceptability. I argue that a regime is legitimate if its power is accepted by subjects, provided that such acceptance meets the requirements of acceptability: subjects’ beliefs about the regime’s legitimacy need to successfully satisfy three requirements—coherence, fact-sensitivity, and politics-sensitivity—via entering public debate. I rely on pragmatism to investigate the link between subjects’ beliefs and their experience of facing political authority.
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Sulistyowati, Sulistyowati. "EMPIRIC DEMOCRACY AND THE REFERENCE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN SINGLE CANDIDATE ELECTIONS." Jurnal Pembaharuan Hukum 8, no. 1 (April 24, 2021): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.26532/jph.v8i1.15432.
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The dynamic changes in the Law on Election for Governors, Regents, and Mayors prove that there are dynamics and progressiveness in the implementation of Pilkada. The process of the birth of laws, including the process of the birth of amendments to the Law, is a legal political process. The legal political process is under the authority of the legislator. The approach method used is normative juridical method. The power of legislators in the political and legal process is not absolute, because the government also has a domain of authority, although not as big as the authority of legislators. The result states that The legal political process always rests on the principle of normative democracy as the embodiment of the das sollen principle. At the level of implementation of the rule of law, there will always be legal anomalies, because there is a mismatch between normative democracy as the embodiment of the basic principle with empirical democracy as the embodiment of the basic sein principle. The legitimacy of a single candidate in Law Number 10 of 2016 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors makes the preferences of political parties increasingly pragmatism.
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Tamanaha, B. Z. "Pragmatism in U.S. Legal Theory: Its Application to Normative Jurisprudence, Sociolegal Studies, and the Fact-Value Distinction." American Journal of Jurisprudence 41, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 315–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajj/41.1.315.
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Staggs Kelsall, Michelle. "From a Stark Utopia to Everyday Utopias." Volume 60 · 2017 60, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 575–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/gyil.60.1.575.
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This article considers the emergence of the Business and Human Rights agenda at the United Nations (UN). It argues that the agenda can be seen as an example of the UN Human Rights Council attempting to institutionalise everyday utopias within an emerging global public domain. Utilising the concept of embedded pragmatism and tracing the underlying rationale for the emergence of the agenda to the work of Karl Polanyi, the article argues that the Business and Human Rights agenda seeks to institutionalise human rights due diligence processes within transnational corporations in order to create a pragmatic alternative to the stark utopia of laissez-faire liberal markets. It then provides an analytical account of the implications of human rights due diligence for the modes and techniques business utilises to assess human rights harm. It argues that due to the constraints imposed by the concept of embedded pragmatism and the normative indeterminacy of human rights, the Business and Human Rights agenda risks instituting human rights within the corporation through modes and techniques that maintain human rights as a language of crisis, rather than creating the space for novel, everyday utopias to emerge.
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Whiteman, Rodney S. "Explicating metatheory for mixed methods research in educational leadership." International Journal of Educational Management 29, no. 7 (September 14, 2015): 888–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijem-06-2015-0077.
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Purpose – Mixed methods research can provide a fruitful line of inquiry for educational leadership, program evaluation, and policy analysis; however, mixed methods research requires a metatheory that allows for mixing what have traditionally been considered incompatible qualitative and quantitative inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to apply Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action as that metatheoretical justification. Design/methodology/approach – After reviewing the traditional quantitative/qualitative divide based on incompatible ontologies, the author argues for a pragmatist stance toward educational leadership inquiry. Such a stance allows for mixing methods because it privileges methodology and epistemology in social inquiry, rather than ontological theories of reality. Using Habermas’s metatheory, the author shows how truth claims are linguistically mediated; how they make reference to objective, subjective, and normative formal worlds; and how they are always fallible and revisable. Findings – The author argues that Habermas’s metatheory allows (and requires) integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches to fully understand social phenomena. Such integration is possible if researchers attempt to make methodological decisions explicit by linking methodology (and thus methodical decisions) to all three formal worlds, and articulating the rationale for doing so. The author also argues that making the entire corpus of claims bound within a line of social inquiry subject to critical examination promotes the validity of inquiry. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the discussion on mixed methods research by applying a particular strand of pragmatism. This is an advance in the extant literature, which argues for a pragmatist stance on mixed methods research, but has not yet conceptualized a metatheoretical position supporting this stance.
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Menkes, Jerzy, and Anna Kociołek-Pęksa. "(R)evolution of the Axiology of Human Rights, Political Freedom and Security as a Determinant of UN Pragmatism." Politeja 18, no. 2(71) (August 5, 2021): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.18.2021.71.04.
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The state, under the Westphalian order, was both the creator and product of international law which determined its position as the central actor of this system. The norms of international law defined the normative content of the internal security regime, where state security was identical with security as such in international relations. The reality that laid the foundation for this logical syllogism has been subject to gradual transformation that had its climax in the early decades of the 21st century. The states, previously holding monopoly of using force in international relations, which allowed for prevention of wars by means of intergovernmental agreements or maintenance of peace through institutionalized intergovernmental cooperation, lost their exclusive authority to use force. Stipulating ‘non-war’ by means of an (intergovernmental) international treaty became impossible since the non-state actors who apply force pursue counter-systemic goals and reject the international (and internal) order based on the rule of law. The state sovereignty, whose significant albeit not exclusive referent was autocracy and total power, has been transformed from the title of claim to cease the violation by the state into the personal right to protection (vested in an individual or minority/people/mankind in general). International law, which did not constitute a system until as late as the second half of the 20th century, not only obtained such character relatively quickly, but also has been subject to constitutionalization. The inherent unity of the international law as the common legal system of the international community is subject, along with this community, to fundamental divergence: into the law governing (internal) relationships between members of the, transatlantic, security community, which form a normatively and institutionally interrelated selfcontained regime on the one hand, and the international law that governs the relations between the countries of the Western Hemisphere and other subjects of the international law on the other hand. These factors determine the shift of the security paradigm: new actors, new normative content, different binding effect of the norms and, above all, new rules. The new paradigm of security in the international law dimension correlates with the shift in metaphors that build concepts significant to the international law such as state, sovereignty, security, and international treaty. These transformations set the stage for the legitimization of actions taken by the subjects of legal protection in the international law dimension.
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Giladi, Paul. "Butler and Postanalytic Philosophy." Hypatia 36, no. 2 (2021): 276–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.16.
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AbstractThis article has two aims: (i) to bring Judith Butler and Wilfrid Sellars into conversation; and (ii) to argue that Butler's poststructuralist critique of feminist identity politics has metaphilosophical potential, given her pragmatic parallel with Sellars's critique of conceptual analyses of knowledge. With regard to (i), I argue that Butler's objections to the definitional practice constitutive of certain ways of construing feminism is comparable to Sellars's critique of the analytical project geared toward providing definitions of knowledge. Specifically, I propose that moving away from a definition of woman to what one may call poststructuralist sites of woman parallels moving away from a definition of knowledge to a pragmatic account of knowledge as a recognizable standing in the normative space of reasons. With regard to (ii), I argue that the important parallels between Butler's poststructuralist feminism and Sellars's antirepresentationalist normative pragmatism about knowledge enable one to think of her poststructuralist feminism as mapping out pragmatic cognitive strategies and visions for doing philosophy. This article starts a conversation between two philosophers whom the literature has yet to fully introduce to each other.
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Soin, Maciej. "Philosophical difficulties of stakeholder theory." Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym 21, no. 7 (April 2, 2018): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.21.7.05.
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Philosophical difficulties of stakeholder theory—which plays an important role in CSR and business ethics—are mainly connected to the questions of its status and justification. What sense does stakeholder theory have: descriptive, instrumental or normative? And if normative, why then should executives worry about multiple stakeholder demands? It is well known that Freeman, one of the most important authors of stakeholder theory, deliberately disregarded these problems. In philosophical questions, he invoked Rorty’s pragmatism that in his opinion effectively undermined the “positivistic” dichotomy between facts and values, science and ethics, and enabled stakeholder theory to be understood as both descriptive and normative. The article presents some difficulties connected with this view, focusing on its dubious assumptions and unfavourable consequences. These assumptions contain a false dilemma, taken from Rorty, which states that knowledge follows either a rule of representation or a rule of solidarity. One of the unfavourable consequences is the conclusion that stakeholder theory may be true only if its followers are able to force the stakeholders to accept its truthfulness. The main thesis of the article says that, because of pragmatic justification, stakeholder theory became a sort of arbitrary narration, which is unable to deal with its (empirical) misuses. However, a more traditional view on facts and values enables us to appreciate the descriptive advantages of the theory and to identify difficulties connected with its normative layer. From this point of view, the attempt at a pragmatic interpretation of stakeholder theory was a misunderstanding that should be withdrawn from circulation.
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Biddle, Catharine. "Pragmatism in student voice practice: What does it take to sustain a counter-normative reform in the long-term?" Journal of Educational Change 20, no. 1 (July 27, 2018): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10833-018-9326-3.
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Morales Giraldo, Juan Francisco. "Brasil nuclear: dos interpretaciones opuestas sobre la orientación de su programa atómico." Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional 6, no. 2 (December 8, 2020): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.18847/1.12.5.
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The analysis of the Brazilian nuclear program from different theoretical approaches shed light on differences regarding its orientation and purposes. Optimistic views, from a liberal standpoint, emphasize the idea that States’ foreign policy should be asses in a favorable fashion according to certain aspects such as democratic values, compliance with international norms and legitimacy from public opinion. But in opposition to perspectives based on normative arguments, a power politics perspective emphasizes least idealist aspects: the reconfiguration of international power hierarchy and the aspirations of an emergent global power as subjacent motivations for the technical developments of the atomic program. This work ponders the relative utility of both perspectives focusing on situations, developments and discourses from recent past that make possible to infer the political orientation of Brazilian nuclear program. The study proceeds by contrasting the evidence available with theoretical elements from each perspective. First, Brazilian foreign policy regarding the Nonproliferation Regime is compared with assumptions from Liberal thesis about State conduct. In that sense, aspects such as the weight-normative international institutions, domestic democracy and legitimacy provided by these principles, would have an important explanatory importance. In the second part, an opposed view is adopted: the liberal thesis applied to the problematic of Brazilian nuclear program are seen critically from the standpoint of an interpretation about its orientation based on a revisionist policy and pragmatism related to major objectives of international status and power relations with Great Powers. An important evidence in that sense is the ambiguity of the nuclear program and its military purposes, which suggest that the second perspective offers a better explanation of Brazilian objectives in this area. Conclusions are focused on three distinctions between both perspectives that give answers to the problems of the study: the absence of a nuclear program in contrast with the militarization of the nuclear technology and its applications; the acceptance of international institutions in contrast with the pragmatism and selectiveness of the compliance of certain principles; and finally, the unclear conceptual frontiers exposed by the Brazilian nuclear program.
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Santhosh, R., and Dayal Paleri. "Crisis of Secularism and Changing Contours of Minority Politics in India." Asian Survey 61, no. 6 (November 1, 2021): 999–1027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2021.1433091.
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This paper examines the changing nature of Muslim political mobilization in contemporary India in the context of Hindu nationalism’s ascendancy into power and the consequent crisis of traditional Muslim politics. Through an ethnographic case study of the Popular Front of India, we argue that a qualitatively new form of political mobilization is taking place among Indian Muslims centered on an articulation of “self-defense” against a “Hindu nationalist threat.” This politics of self-defense is constructed on the reconciliation of two contradictory processes: use of extensive legal pragmatism, and defensive ethnicization based on Islamic identity. The paper also examines the consequences of the emerging politics of competing ethnicization for even a normative and minimal idea of secularism and how it contributes to the process of decoupling of secularism and democracy in contemporary India.