Day: January 24, 2009

On his blog, Requiem for Certainty, pragmatist philosopher Colin Koopman dissects Obama’s inaugural speech and finds lots of good stuff for both pragmatist philosophy and democratic politics, including the recurring pragmatist theme of hope. The inaugural address also made a pragmatist promise in another key moment.  Obama spoke of “stale political arguments” concerning the relative… Continue reading Obama’s Pragmatism