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    Pragmatism and moral progress: John Dewey’s theory of social inquiry
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (8): 809-824. 2013.
    John Dewey developed a pragmatic theory of inquiry to provide intelligent methods for social progress. He believed that the logic and attitude of successful scientific inquiries, properly conceived, could be fruitfully applied to morals and politics. Unfortunately, his project has been poorly understood and his logic of inquiry neglected as a resource. Contemporary pragmatists, like Richard Rorty, for example, dismiss his emphasis on method and avoid judgments of moral progress that are in any w…Read more
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    Michael Sullivan, Legal Pragmatism: Community, Rights, and Democracy (review)
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (1): 149-154. 2010.
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    John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as Experience By Gregory Fernando Pappas
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 48 (2): 245. 2012.
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    Empathy is the ability to infer and share the feelings, intentions, and goals of other persons.1 It provides the basis for our extraordinary capacity to help others, including strangers we may never meet, without interest in personal benefit. Its extent has been controversial, but recent studies in neuroscience, empirical psychology, and primatology support a highly empathic understanding of human nature. This view overturns the so-called “Darwinian” paradigm prevalent both in popular imaginatio…Read more
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    Authority, Epistemic Privileging, and Democratic Deliberation
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 10 (2): 77-87. 2003.
    This essay focuses on the role relationships of authority play in the communal production of knowledge. The author draws on recent developments in feminist epistemology and the pragmatism of John Dewey to show that not only is authority representation ineluctable, but is desirable if held properly accountable.
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    Peirce and a Pragmatic Reconception of Substance
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (2). 2001.
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    Although widely recognized as founder and key figure in the current re-emergence of pragmatism, Charles Peirce is rarely brought into contemporary dialogue. In this book, Kory Sorrell shows that Peirce has much to offer contemporary debate and deepens the value of Peirce’s view of representation in light of feminist epistemology, philosophy of science, and cultural anthropology. Drawing also on William James and John Dewey, Sorrell identifies ways in which bias, authority, and purpose are ineluc…Read more
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    Feminist Ethics and Dewey's Moral Theory
    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35 (1). 1999.