PRAGMATISM BETWEEN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION A response to David Granger SITUATING PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS I am very grateful to Professor David Granger for his perceptive discus-

I am very grateful to Professor David Granger for his perceptive discussion of the second edition of Pragmatist Aesthetics, and to the editors of this Journal for generously providing the space for such an ample review of my work. I am particularly pleased to be engaged with specialists in the philosophy of education, since I regard education as one of the core concerns of philosophy. Though its centrality may not be evident in today’s philosophical mainstream, education was certainly a key concept for many of philosophy’s most influential figures. Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, and Dewey are among the first that spring to my mind, but education was also a crucial interest for Ludwig Wittgenstein, who spent six years teaching in a rural Austrian elementary school after having written his early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, and also composed and published a Dictionary for Elementary Schools. The theme of education, I think, pervades Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, which often seeks to explain our concepts of meaning and knowing through notions of teaching and training. More than any thinker but Dewey, Wittgenstein informs my philosophical perspective. But Granger is right that Dewey is the most dominant inspiration of Pragmatist Aesthetics and more generally of my neopragmatist theory, so I will confine my response to Granger’s discussion of my work’s relationship to Dewey and to issues of education, while also clarifying a few points in Granger’s fine commentary that could lead to a misunderstanding of my views. Granger graciously credits me for providing “an authoritative voice” that gives Dewey’s old message more resonance in today’s field of “philosophical aesthetics”. If this is true, it is not due to any personal endowment or institutional privilege, but because my work in pragmatist aesthetics