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Frederick Smith

S. Toulmin, Philosopher and Educator - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Frederick Smith on 30 Dec 09
     
    Philosopher advocating pragmatic, contextual reasoning - favored Montaigne over Descartes.
Frederick Smith

David Brooks Op-Ed - The Pragmatic Leviathan - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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David Brooks Obama Obama's government as leviathan nytimes

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    Brooks commends Obama as a thoughtful, disciplined pragmatist, not an ideologue. Nevertheless, he sees Obama's gargantuan appetite for reform in many sectors as an "over-stepping" that provokes American anti-government suspicions. He advises one year of demonstrating how government is a humble servant, rather than an imperious leviathan.
Frederick Smith

John Edwin Smith, Philosopher and Author, Dies at 88 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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philosophy religion religion & philosophy pragmatism obit John Edwin Smith non-Cartesian philosophy

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    Philosopher interested in American pragmatists (James, Pierce, Dewey), Josiah Royce, and religion (including Jonathan Edwards!" "The search for truth, he argued, was an inherently social, communitarian enterprise."
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