Pragmatism Archive

  • Pre-Darwinian Empiricism Read Through Peirce

    Pre-Darwinian Empiricism Read Through Peirce

    On one hand, we’re always nervous about the “science doesn’t work the way scientists think it works” narrative – it sounds too much like a setup for the inevitable “also, science is just another narrative” punchline, and is kind of trivial to everyone who’s not a scientist anyway. That said, the recent work on pre-Darwinian [...]

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  • Habermas’s Peircean Fallibilism

    Habermas’s Peircean Fallibilism

    After all of the underbrush of Between Facts and Norms is cleared – all the constitutional identity stuff, all the deliberative democracy stuff, etc – there’s still the naive question: what, exactly is between facts and norms? This is obviously the space where facticity intersects with validity, but that’s a trivial result based as much [...]

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