Contemporary Pragmatism

action actual agents American appear argue argument attempt attitudes attribution behaviour beliefs Bourdieu called Cambridge characterization Christian Church claim cognitive commitment concepts concerns context Contingency correspondence critical culture Davidson democracy Dennett dependent Dewey distinction empirical epistemology essay example experience explanation expression fact give given grounds habits human idea ideal important individual intentional interests interpretation interpretivist Ironist irony issues James John kind knowledge language less lives meaning Milbank mind narrative nature normative notion objects offer Oxford particular persons perspective philosophy political position possible practices pragmatism pragmatist problem prophetic provides psychological question radical orthodoxy rationality reality reason reflection relation religious Richard Rorty Rorty's seeks sense serve simply social strategy Strauss suggests Taylor theology theory things thought tradition true truth turn understanding University Press vocabulary writes York