Sentences with phrase «liberal pragmatists»

In fact, their fundamental premise that all truth claims are socially constructed is not far removed from that of old - style liberal pragmatists.

Not exact matches

Another prominent liberal of an earlier generation, Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, Governor Mario Cuomo, a self described «progressive pragmatist,» also opposed casino gambling on the same grounds which Mayor LaGuardia did.

«Scattered throughout these essays are self - affixed labels such as «we anti-representationists,» «we Western liberal intellectuals,» «we partisans of solidarity,» «we pragmatists,» «we new fuzzies,» «us shepherds of Being,» «we enlightened post-Kuhnians,» «we anti-essentialists,» «we moderns,» «we humans,» «we bourgeois liberals,» «we Deweyans,» «we pragmatic Wittgensteinean therapists.»

While admitting that irony seems to be inherently a private matter and of little public use, he nonetheless contends that we should develop a kind of «liberal irony» of the sort adopted by the pragmatists, particularly Dewey.

Obama is a skilled candidate, and a determined liberal, but Obama could not have run as a post-partisan pragmatist if the media (or anyone) had successfully publicized his record of opposing extending legal protections to newborns that survived botched abortions and had lied about his votes.

Yet former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ran his state as a careful pragmatist for 11 years, then successfully reinvented himself as an unabashed liberal for the 2004 campaign.

Backing Mr. Sanders also represents a rare break from the WFP's liberal, though pragmatist, roots.

«The liberal blogosphere reserves its bitterest contempt not for the loathsome battalions of the right — Bush loyalists may be criminals and sociopaths, according to the left, but at least they are true to their beliefs — but rather for the centrists and pragmatists in politics and the media who apparently believe nothing, and who in their intellectual and moral depravity affect to see both sides of an argument.

At the start of our journey I said the roads of Disruptors, Pragmatists, and Liberal Arts Majors would quickly diverge, and I fear we've come to that fork in the road.

After building your first bot, we'll review what we've learned and how you can continue your journey, be it as a Disruptor, Pragmatist, or Liberal Arts Major.

Luckily for us, Disruptors, Liberal Arts Majors, and Pragmatists interested in learning more all start their journeys in roughly the same spot, even if their paths quickly diverge.

I think I'm sort of a pragmatist slash liberal arts major under his sort of three - part thing.

Sam Glover: David puts together sort of three personas that he calls the disruptors, the liberal arts majors, and the pragmatists.