Introduction: Why Dialogue with Dewey Today? John Dewey was engaged, throughout his work, in the reconstruction of American democracy and education. Committed to that philosophy for and in action that is pragmatism, a philosophy for solving the problems of human beings, he addressed himself to what he saw as the crisis of democracy in twentieth-century America. In 1927, discussing the erosion o...

Statistics has moved beyond the frequentist-Bayesian controversies of the past. Where does this leave our ability to interpret results? I suggest that a philosophy compatible with statistical practice, labelled here statistical pragmatism, serves as a foundation for inference. Statistical pragmatism is inclusive and emphasizes the assumptions that connect statistical models with observed data. ...

I seek here to develop the general outlines of a theory of environmental policy. It is a theory that will stand in stark contrast to the tendentious and normative welfare economics that now dominates the policy dialogue in applied economics. In this standard approach, economists place " …exclusive reliance on individual utilities to judge social goodness and right actions [Sen 1993, p. 521]. " ...

I argue that American pragmatism can be understood as an effort to recuperate a sense of the animality thought and thus example what Deleuze Guattari call “becoming animal” within field philosophy. At issue in this becoming animal is influence Charles Peirce’s theory abduction on history from its origins more recent reception Jacques Derrida’s (pra)grammatology Brian Massumi’s speculative pragm...

Introduction By 1909, when Dewey celebrated his fi ft ieth birthday, he had long since augmented the pragmatic ideas of Charles Peirce and William James and forged from them a powerful method of philosophical, social, and educational critique and reconstruction. James had labeled him a philosophical hero and his ideas were inspiring leading philosophers and progressive era reformers. Following ...

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of American pragmatism, spent a good deal of his intellectual energy and time trying to categorise kinds of reasoning, examine their properties and their mutual relations. During this intellectual adventure, he was constantly breaking new ground. One of his major achievements was that he clearly delineated a space for non-deductive, that is amplia...

The economic performances of the Eurozone look weaker than those of the United States over the period 1999-2006, in spite of the fact that the former applies more thoroughly the 'new macroeconomics' governance rules concerning public deficits and inflation control. The literature emphasizes Alan Greenspan's pragmatism when discussing the relative success of the Fed, but the reasons why pragmati...

ABSTRACT Thorstein Veblen was a founding father of the original institutional economics. Veblen’s first book, The Theory Leisure Class (1899), introduced to economists an interdisciplinary perspective understand consumers’ decision-making. This relied on processual nature instincts, habits, and institutions. ideas human behavior were not completely original, it has been widely recognized that s...