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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

Very Bad Wizards

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What Happens if Pragmatism Is Unpragmatic?

Vidine: What happens if pragmatism itself proves to be unpragmatic, right? And realism is more pragmatic. Vidine: I think Rorty does, his style of pragmatism does. He says he has a more expressivist and motivus kind of like analogous to the expressivist in Skinner's work. The worst thing you can say about it is that it starts to not fully make sense of how we talk about, especially the hard sciences, writes Vidine.

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