Carlos Garzón-Rodríguez

This review analyzes Andrés Mejía Vergnaud’s _La ruta del pragmatismo. La filosofía de lo posible, lo concreto y lo que funciona_ (2025) as a proposal for the practical application of pragmatism in its Jamesian vein. After historically situating the work at the crossroads between Peirce and James, the text demonstrates how Mejía defends a conception oriented toward action, negotiation, and efficacy in fields such as ethics, justice, capitalism, and governance. The review raises three primary objections: the potential confusion between practical normativity and pragmatic functionality; the risk of reducing truth and knowledge to mere operativity—considering Susan Haack’s ethics of the intellect—; and the circularity of a pragmatism that tends to reinterpret every successful decision as “pragmatic.” It concludes that, despite these tensions, the book constitutes a provocative intervention in contemporary debates on practical rationality and public philosophy.

This article analyses the epistemic dimensions of the false positives phenomenon in Colombia, where thousands of civilians were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed by members of the Armed Forces and later falsely presented as combat casualties. Drawing on recent epistemological theories, we argue that these crimes were enabled not only by the deliberate production of ignorance – through concealment, victim profiling, denial, and discrediting of whistleblowers – but also by widespread hermeneutical insensitivities that prevailed across Colombian society. These forms of epistemic injustice, rooted in entrenched negative stereotypes about marginalised populations, severely undermined the credibility of the victims’ families and obstructed access to truth and justice. We also explore how these injustices were institutionally produced and sustained, exacerbating the victims’ epistemic marginalisation. Finally, we examine the epistemic resistance carried out by victims’ collec-tives, especially MAFAPO, showing how their practices – public testimonies, symbolic actions, and truth-telling efforts – have disrupted dominant narratives, regenerated public sensibilities, and reconfigured the public knowledge space, thus playing a decisive role in confronting impunity and reclaiming memory.