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How to be a pragmatist
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Anderson, Elizabeth |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pragmatism is often loosely characterized as the view that people should adopt “whatever works.” This seems like empty and useless advice, since it omits any substantive criterion of what works. The key to pragmatism lies in its method, which deeply integrates moral with empirical inquiry. Pragmatism replaces the quest for an ultimate criterion or principle of morally right action with a method for intelligently updating our moral beliefs. It offers two ways to improve our moral beliefs. First, we can study the conditions that tend to bias our thinking and reconsider moral problems under conditions in which the operations of such biases are blocked, counteracted, or diminished. Second, we can test our moral beliefs through experiments in living - by putting our moral principles into practice and seeing whether they solve the problems we need them to solve without creating worse problems. Instead of casting the quest for moral knowledge in terms of the discovery of fixed ends or principles of action, pragmatists view it as the continuing refinement of tools for living with others in light of experience. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780429266768-7&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 94 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 83 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429266768-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason History Pragmatism Criterion Pragmatists Moral Beliefs Moral Principles |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
