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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Meliorism"”.
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Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
… I emphasize the qualities of action and meliorism that we find in Classical Pragmatist notions of experience. I exploit Rortys concession that nonlinguistic experiences exist and refute Rortys claim that these nonlinguistic experiences remain in the private sphere of life and have no …
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… The paper then provides a pragmatist reading of meliorism, as found in the works of John Dewey, William James, Richard Rorty and Jane Addams; a view of meliorism that hearkens towards solidarity and not objectivity; one that is not only democratic, cognizant of contingencies and focused on habit, …
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Parallel Progressivist Orientations: Exploring the Meanings of Progressive Education in Two Ontario Journals, The School and The Canadian School Journal, 1919-1942
… and industrial order; the third concerned social meliorism and cooperation. Hence, I draw not only on three different domains of progressivist rhetoric, but also on three distinct orientations to reform. What emerges is a description of how different progressivists understood and represented …
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The Emerging Paradigm of Reader-Text Transaction: Contributions of John Dewey and Louise M. Rosenblatt, with Implications for Educators
… optimism nor to despair, but rather to a hopeful meliorism.