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	Podcast:		The Philosopher's Zone - Program podcast
	Episode:		The Pragmatists
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:25:02
	Publish Date:		2018-08-12 02:30:00
	Description:		Should philosophy be the attempt to articulate truth? If you’re a pragmatist, the answer is No. William James wrote of truth as a subset of expediency, and of truth’s 'cash value'. Richard Rorty saw truth—philosophical, moral, even scientific—in terms of contingent 'vocabularies'. At a time when The Washington Post reports that the leader of the free world has made over 3,000 false claims since becoming US President, pragmatic scepticism about truth could be a dangerous luxury.
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