Pragmatism and Justice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av DIELEMAN, Susan Dieleman, David Rondel, Christopher Voparil, Canada) Dieleman, Susan (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Reno) Rondel, David (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Union Institute and University) Voparil, Christopher (Graduate Faculty, Graduate Faculty

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The essays in this volume answer to anxieties that the pragmatist tradition has had little to say about justice. While both the classical and neo-pragmatist traditions have produced a conspicuously small body of writing about the idea of justice, a common subtext of the essays in this volume is that there is in pragmatist thought a set of valuable resources for developing pragmatist theories of justice, for responding profitably to concrete injustices, and for engaging with contemporary, prevailing, liberal theories of justice. Despite the absence of conventionally philosophical theories of justice in the pragmatist canon, the writings of many pragmatists demonstrate an obvious sensitivity and responsiveness to injustice. Many pragmatists were and are moved by a deep sense of justice-by an awareness of the suffering of people, by the need to build just institutions, and a search for a tolerant and non-discriminatory culture that regards all people as equals. Three related and mutually reinforcing ideas to which virtually all pragmatists are committed can be discerned: a prioritization of concrete problems and real-world injustices ahead of abstract precepts; a distrust of a priori theorizing (along with a corresponding fallibilism and methodological experimentalism); and a deep and persistent pluralism, both in respect to what justice is and requires, and in respect to how real-world injustices are best recognized and remedied. Ultimately, Pragmatism and Justice asserts that pragmatism gives us powerful resources for understanding the idea of justice more clearly and responding more efficaciously to a world rife with injustice.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-05-11
Mått239 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt706 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190459239

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Susan Dieleman is Assistant Professor (with term) in the department of philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. She specializes in Social and Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Feminist Philosophy. She has published essays in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, The Pluralist, Social Philosophy Today, and Social Epistemology.David Rondel is Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. His areas of research specialization include egalitarianism, theories of distributive justice, Marx and Marxism, and American pragmatist political theory. He has published widely in these areas. His essays have appeared, among other places, in The Journal of Philosophical Research, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Contemporary Pragmatism.Christopher Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory.

PermissionsList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Perspectives on Pragmatism and Justice Susan Dieleman, David Rondel, and Christopher J. VoparilPart I: The Pragmatist Turn To Justice Chapter 1. Justice as a Larger Loyalty Richard Rorty Chapter 2. Abnormal Justice Nancy FraserChapter 3. Pragmatism's Contribution to Nonideal Theorizing: Fraser, Addams, and Rorty Christopher J. VoparilChapter 4. Empirical Approaches to Injustice: Elizabeth Anderson and the Pragmatists Gregory PappasChapter 5. Ideal and Actual in Dewey's Political Theory Matthew FestensteinChapter 6. Justice in Context Ruth Anna PutnamChapter 7. Realism, Pragmatism, and Critical Social Epistemology Susan DielemanPart II: Resisting Oppression and InjusticeChapter 8. Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality in Dialogue with American Pragmatism Patricia Hill CollinsChapter 9. Pragmatism and Dreams of Justice: Between Radical Black Philosophy and Deweyan Democracy V. Denise JamesChapter 10. Contesting Injustice: Why Pragmatist Political Thought Needs Du Bois Colin KoopmanChapter 11. Pragmatism, Racial Injustice, and Epistemic Insurrection: Toward an Insurrectionist Pragmatism José MedinaChapter 12. An Aesthetics of Resistance: Deweyan Experimentalism and Epistemic Injustice Paul C. TaylorChapter 13. Setting Aside Hope: A Pragmatist Approach to Racial Justice Shannon SullivanPart III: Pragmatism, Liberalism, and Democracy Chapter 14. Reconsidering Deweyan Democracy Hilary PutnamChapter 15. Dewey and the Problem of Justice Peter ManicasChapter 16. (What) Can Pragmatists Think About Justice? Pragmatism and Liberal Egalitarianism Robert B. TalisseChapter 17. A Pragmatist Account of Legitimacy and Authority: Holmes, Ramsey, and the Moral Force of Law Cheryl MisakChapter 18. William James on Justice and the Sacredness of Individuality David Rondel

Pragmatism and Justice, a multi-author volume, is conceptually organized and masterfully ordered, such that it reads less like a collection of disjointed essays and more like a philosophical chain novel, where each contribution picks up where the previous one left off... I recommend it to all philosophers interested in ethics, politics, or law, and those committed to resisting contemporary social injustice... this collection would work well in an upper level course on ethics and politics or as a supplement to primary works in a course on pragmatism, and I recommend it to anyone interested in theoretical reflections on justice and those aiming to resist contemporary injustices.