Pragmatic Inquiry and Democratic Politics

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ID6232013
AuthorsMarion Smiley (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume43
Issue2
Pages629
Publication date1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2991810
OpenAlexW2323106017
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

The essays in this collection are both diverse in subject matter and rich in detail. Hence, I cannot possibly do justice to all of the arguments that they develop. Nor do I attempt to do so here. Instead, I focus my attention on the essays as a collection and, in doing so, make three general points about what might loosely be called democratic pragmatism. The first concerns the contributions that the essays make to the revival of pragmatism as a democratic mode of scientific inquiry. The second underscores the necessity of developing criteria for ensuring the democratic nature of pragmatic inquiry in practice. The third sketches a set of such criteria on the basis of insights provided by each of the essays and outlines a set of issues that still need to be resolved if pragmatism is to sustain the sort of democratic participation that it clearly requires

Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Library science · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subject matter · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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