| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Experience has lessons to impart. Its
ability to teach, however, turns on our
willingness to learn. Attending to the
lessons of human experience brought
American pragmatists of the nineteenth
century to a new conception of philosophy,
one that embraced the fallibilism
that had long de½ned the natural sciences.
It led them back to the abiding
existential questions that underpinned
the Wisdom Traditions of the past in
order to explore the personal, social,
and political trials of the present. These
thinkers established a new intellectual
tradition that allows
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