{"id":482,"date":"2018-05-03T22:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=482"},"modified":"2018-05-03T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:05:02","slug":"what-might-be-said-about-pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/05\/03\/what-might-be-said-about-pragmatism\/","title":{"rendered":"What might be said about pragmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last class meeting of my pragmatism seminar. I had the students each make a presentation on their seminar papers in-progress. Some students were further along in their thinking others, but it gave everyone a chance to try out arguments and to exchange ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/courses\/1718ii\/\">course syllabus<\/a> covered more than 20 authors, but student interest was fairly focused.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2 students are writing on issues of truth and objectivity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3 students are writing on Jane Addams and ethical method.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2 students are writing on issues of ethical method and objectivity, one with an eye toward Nelson Goodman and the other by way of C.I. Lewis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the projects sound interesting, but I wouldn&#8217;t have expected this distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Because this was me, the readings were weighted more toward philosophy of science and epistemology than toward ethics and value theory. But nobody is writing about philosophy of science. &#x1f612;<\/p>\n<p>Jane Addams was a late addition to the syllabus, and I wasn&#8217;t sure how it was going to work out until the class meeting on her work. She was a hit. &#x1f603;<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s just grading and administrative work between me and the end of the semester. &#x1f630;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last class meeting of my pragmatism seminar. I had the students each make a presentation on their seminar papers in-progress. Some students were further along in their thinking others, but it gave everyone a chance to try out arguments and to exchange ideas. The course syllabus covered more than 20 authors, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/05\/03\/what-might-be-said-about-pragmatism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What might be said about pragmatism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,13],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-pragmatism","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-7M","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}