[MD] What is SOM?

[david buchanan]

Ian said:
I'm currently reading Louis Menand's 1997 "Pragmatism - A Reader" - an anthology of pragmatist writings including the usual suspects. He's the same guy that wrote "The Metaphysical Club". Are you familiar with either of those ? How do they compare to your latest recommendation?

dmb says:
For whatever its worth, I love Stuhr but not Menand. It has been a while but I listened to the audio version of the metaphysical club and thought it was boring. I could have missed it or forgotten it, but I believe there is no mention of radical empiricism. According to Hildebrand, Stuhr, Rosenthal and the later James himself, pragmatism is not pragmatism without it. People who like neopragmatists like Rorty and Putnam seem to be okay with pragmatism without radical empiricism, but the classical pragmatists consider it to essential, maybe even more important than pragmatism itself. That's about where I'm at.

Thanks for asking,
dmb



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