Is It Hard to Know? Or Is It Hard to Know?

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i enjoyed this article more than i thought. The best thing about the pragmentis is how little patience they have. It's weird, cause they get into the arguments only to tell people that they're stupidlok, yes. I think rordy really did think, look, what this means is philosophy is not some special practice. And literature and art and all these other ways are also, you know, other valuable ways of of acquiring your beliefs or approaching the world.

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.