{"id":9261,"date":"2020-04-22T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2020-05-13T00:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:15:39","slug":"from-the-vaults-pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-pragmatism\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Pragmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Matthew Festenstein\/ Clara Fischer\/ Paniel Reyes Cardenas<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_events\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20181029_1830_pragmatismDoingWhatWorks.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bfgG9TcjhiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if instead of worrying about truth as a fundamental, objective notion, we just focused on what works? What if we just believed in what is practical or beneficial to us to believe? Pragmatism is the great American contribution to philosophy, and it has serious implications for politics, philosophy, and science. Join us to discuss the history of this idea, and what might be entailed by \u2018doing\u00a0what works\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/academicstaff\/matthew-festenstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Festenstein<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Politics, University of York<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/people.ucd.ie\/clara.fischer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clara Fischer<\/a><br \/>\nMarie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow, Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexuality,\u00a0University College Dublin<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/upaep.academia.edu\/PanielReyesCardenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paniel Reyes Cardenas<\/a><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Philosophy, UPAEP, Puebla M\u00e9xico<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/clare-moriarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clare Moriarty<\/a>, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/royalinstitutephilosophy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Institute of Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 29 October at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Festenstein\/ Clara Fischer\/ Paniel Reyes Cardenas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/1-MI-TH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2pn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}