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Animal Neopragmatism

open access: yes, 2019
This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey, Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles about human interactions with animals can be ‘dissolved’ by understanding why people use ...
Hadley, John (R16185)
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What Is Neopragmatism?

2023
Abstract This chapter provides a general overview of neopragmatism, which is a general view of way language functions. Beginning with some remarks about its historical roots, the chapter presents and explains a number of neopragmatism’s distinctive features.
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Rorty and Neopragmatism

open access: yes, 2017
He once gave a series of three lectures, which I think correspond pretty much to the essays on contingency, friendship, solidarity, in a collection from 1989 or so. His analytic, former students hated him, and when introducing him here said, “when I studied with Richard Rorty at Columbia University, he still knew what an argument was.” It was the most ...
Hossein Mesbahian, Trevor Norris
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Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, and Public Administration

Administration and Society, 2005
The project of harmonizing ideals and practical realities often falls to the organs of public administration. Because this task involves the application of general and fixed concepts (policies, laws, standards) to particular and fluid practicalities (situations, circumstances, persons), those in public administration need strategies to deal with ...
David L Hildebrand
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Objections to Animal Neopragmatism

open access: yes, 2019
In this chapter, I address two objections to animal neopragmatism: the anything goes objection and the no practical difference objection. The anything goes objection is in response to pragmatism’s signature rejection of philosophical realism and the correspondence theory of truth.
John Hadley
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