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The power of pragmatism

Knowledge production and social inquiry
Manchester University Press

von: Jane Wills, Owain Jones, Gary Bridge, Meg Holden, Liam Harney, Klaus Geiselhart, Susan Saegert, Alice Huff, Robert Lake, Clive Barnett, Malcolm Cutchin, Crispian Fuller, Nichola Wood, Trevor Barnes, Ihnji Jon, Richard Nunes, Alireza Farahani
124,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	21.05.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9781526134967
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	304

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This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and experimental. Drawing from both classical and neo-pragmatist perspectives, the book advances a pragmatist sensibility in which truth and knowledge are contingent rather than universal, made rather than found, provisional rather than dogmatic, subject to continuous experimentation rather than ultimate proof, and verified in their application in action rather than in the accuracy of their representation of an antecedent reality. <i>The Power of Pragmatism</i> offers a path forward for mobilizing the practice of inquiry and knowledge production on behalf of achieving what Dewey called a sense for the better kind of life to be led.