M.L. Friedline

@drmlf.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Pragmatist, Pluralist, Tapir Enthusiast

Saturday 3-4:30 pm, Hynes Convention center 206 Session Title: Facing Threats to Democracy, lessons from pragmatism Panelists are Lisa Sowle Cahill, David Lamberth, Chris Tirres, and David Evans
Classical Pragmatist Roots and Contemporary Fruits The Boston area is the birthplace of American Pragmatism. Charles Peirce was born in Cambridge, and William James spent much of his career teaching at Harvard. Both were shaped by the insights of the proto-pragmatism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Furthermore, Alain Locke and W.E.B Du Bois were both students of James who went on to make important pragmatism-inflected contributions to American and African-American thought and specifically influenced the Harlem Renaissance. The classical Pragmatists developed robust theories of psychology (especially James’ theories of affect and emotion) and experience (especially Peirce’s insights into truth, goodness, and beauty through empirical inquiry). We invite papers that consider how the insights of the classical pragmatists can help us think through and address contemporary issues, including: Navigating our current information ecosystem and resisting misinformation Considerations of epistemic responsibility Theories of affect and emotion, especially as it relates to knowledge, motivation and breaking down the thinking/feeling binary. Questions of normativity in thought and action Approaches to learning through experience and experimentation Feminist and Womanist thought, especially ethics and epistemology
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