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work_ibf5jlu635brxl3npe3orxiqfy	Colin Koopman	Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Hope: Emerson, James, Dewey, Rorty	2006.0	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5234	555	70	It is tempting, then, to see pragmatism as developing the philosophical consequences of meliorism, while understanding democracy as developing James's concept of truth is fl uid with his pluralism, humanism, and meliorism. Rorty's pragmatism expresses the hope that we can make the difference Concerning truth, then, Rorty follows Emerson, James, and Dewey in disclaiming Emerson and Richard Rorty.11 By redescribing pragmatism in terms of hope I have pragmatism as a philosophical practice fl exible enough to be employed by thinkers as different as Emerson, James, Dewey, and Rorty without diminishing its Emerson and Rorty are as important for pragmatism as are James and Dewey. (1999 and forthcoming); Shade (2001); McKenna (2001); Stout (2004); Saito (2005); and Westbrook "pragmatic-truth"), is quite consistent with his meliorism. My claim is that James, Dewey, and Rorty all urge that meliorist hope replace role of "pragmatic-truth" in meliorist hope.	./cache/work_ibf5jlu635brxl3npe3orxiqfy.pdf	./txt/work_ibf5jlu635brxl3npe3orxiqfy.txt