Chris Hayes critiques the Obama-as-pragmatist meme from the left ... The chief failure of Bushism, according to Sunstein, is not its content but its form. Not the substance of ideology but the fact ...

It would take a mighty large bookcase to contain all of the works on pragmatism published over the last two decades. The brainchild of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910) ...

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America , by Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 546 pages, $27. There’s a new book out about mauve, the color. Recently there was a history of the mirror ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

The revival of philosophical pragmatism has generated a wealth of intramural debates between neopragmatists like Richard Rorty and contemporary scholars devoted to explicating the classical pragmatism ...

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book that looks at how Ambedkar drew from John Dewey’s pragmatism to develop his own approach to challenges in India, one on Subhas Chandra Bose’s ...

In Pragmatism: A Reader (Vintage, 1997), the most widely used anthology of writings from the line of thinkers said to represent America’s chief contribution to philosophy, only one woman appears among ...

Matt Welch's article about "do-something pundits" ("The Simpletons," December) raises a question: Why are people like Thomas L. Friedman and David Brooks so eager to say they don't have principles? My ...