The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry

The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / edited by Jane Wills and Robert W. Lake.

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...

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Other Authors: Wills, Jane (Editor), Lake W. Robert (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Pragmatism.
pragmatism.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Pragmatism
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Figures and table
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I : The power of pragmatism
  • Introduction: The power of pragmatism
  • Part II : Key thinkers, core ideas and their application to social research
  • Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy and social research
  • Appreciating the situation: Dewey's pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science
  • Mead, subjectivity and urban politics
  • Rorty, conversation and the power of maps
  • Part III : 'Truth', epistemic injustice and academic practice
  • Embodied ignorances: A pragmatist responds to epistemic and other kinds of frictions in the academy
  • Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts and filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation
  • Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place
  • Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production
  • Part IV : Disciplinary applications in pragmatic research
  • Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism
  • Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action
  • Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach
  • Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies
  • Part V : Conclusion and postscript
  • The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality
  • Who's afraid of pragmatism?
  • Index

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