Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Dewey on 'Pragmatism'


Ruminating: why am I so often declared to be a proponent of pragmatism these days? Is there a way to escape such a reductive interpretation of my writing? Then I sit back and think, why complain about a label when people are always constructing their own meaning for the word pragmatism itself? I can only look back upon the history of the word pragmatism and how it has been used now to understand what and how it has come to be that it is still used to designate a collection of practices. These practices then implicate others in specific ways of relating to the word, the practices, to each other, in ways NONE of us would ever have imagined! Oh my, I am lost for "words"!