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The Importance of Free Will
Pragmatism is a kind of anti principle. It says beliefs are contingent and sometimes work, sometimes don't. In the first half of the twentieth century it was hugely influential in American intellectual life. But after 19 forty five they get eclipsed. They kind of disappear. And privatism doesn't really make a combact until the end of the cold war,. Then there's a huge amount of interest ino 19 80 ttonovitch pragmatism by richard rorety. So i've got more criticism that part of the book than anything because people say, or no, it was still important. But i don't think so. When i was in college, we