Sentences with phrase «on pragmatism»

Pinsent Masons LLP «scores highly on pragmatism, practicality, industry knowledge and experience».

Hard to say — Obama prides himself on his pragmatism and respect for science, which would appear to tilt the scale in favor of cutting out the corn - based ethanol.

It moves the exhibition away from being overly academic or theoretical, and puts less emphasis on the pragmatism of the institution and issues of production.

This meant that the sculptural works usually had a life span of one exhibition only — an approach based on pragmatism rather than a stance opposed to a traditional notion of sculpture.

Subaru buyers, a group notoriously long on pragmatism, will count this in their buying decisions.

Like other communities across upstate New York, my city is doing everything it can to weather the ongoing recession, and we are basing this work on both pragmatism and principle.

The internal opposition has been gradually marginalised and the re-compacted majority has developed a political discourse based on pragmatism, hope for the future and the need for change.

He began rather conventionally, writing a dissertation on pragmatism at the University of Virginia and writing about American political thought (an early article was on the theme of demagogy in the Federalist Papers).

Russ: «a) in my ongoing conversation w / GOP (which you jumped into), the debate was over whether that was based on pragmatism or an underlying principle.

The notion that politicians must not permit their religious sensibilities to affect political decision - making has reduced political dialogue to a seminar on pragmatism.

There is a peculiarly American tradition based on pragmatism and pluralism exemplified at its best in William James.

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It might sound a little fatalistic, but it's pure pragmatism to consider that you may someday want to divest yourself of this venture or bring on an equal partner.

Perhaps those who equate sleep with laziness or lack of dedication can be convinced of the benefits of sleep by looking at what's going on in a world that is the ultimate in pragmatism, where performance and winning are everything: sports.

Critics say the moves reveal a lack of direction; boosters say it's pragmatism on Whitman's part to change course when conditions themselves shift.

With his as - needed approach to home - office equipment, this college - football guru has written the playbook on technological pragmatism.

As for Glickman's penchant for turning the company upside down to deliver on impossible promises, there are signs that, for better or worse, a certain pragmatism and even maturity may be setting in.

Pragmatism may be preventing Bezos from pulling the trigger on long - rumored initiatives such as same - day delivery and a move into brick - and - mortar retail — two projects that remain tremendous financial challenges, even for a company of Amazon's scale and execution prowess.

«Liberalism, socialism, and pragmatism may all be termed optimistic in the sense that they are all premised on the idea that the application of reason to human social and political conditions will ultimately result in the melioration of these conditions.

Pragmatism would buy the central bank some time to focus on a thornier problem: the fact that euro zone consumer prices are barely rising.

On the present scene we see a clear turn toward pragmatism in the work of Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, Richard Bernstein, and others.

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

He finds current expressions of both to be internally divisive as well as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.

Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

On the other hand, Palmer's «objectivism» refers to the dominant strain or to an amalgam of two strains (empiricism and a certain kind of pragmatism) within the larger epistemological project that Rorty calls the «mirror of nature.»

For empirical theology it is the particular alone that is real, and pragmatism and radical empiricism are commentaries on the particular, whereas for conventional speculative theology (within, say, process theology) it is the general condition (such as the primordial nature of God), in addition to the particular, that is real.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

Growing over the previous two centuries out of the Renaissance and Reformation focus on the individual, and building momentum from new economic ventures, new markets and new industrialization, its fundamental values were pragmatism and technology.

Both Marxism and pragmatism, along with more recent analytic philosophies of action, help to make sure that the other moment of action or praxis in the self's essential structure will be brought out no less effectively than the moment of existence or self - understanding on which existentialist philosophy so sharply focuses.

Had James not cast Royce so thoroughly into his shadow — had American philosophy followed the path of a thinker with his eye on the Absolute rather than that of the shrewder social pragmatism of Dewey — the intellectual history of twentieth - century America might have been different.

(By attending to the characteristics of just one phase, and generalizing it, one can get a logical empiricism based on science, an existentialism based on present decision - making, or a pragmatism based on past and present as tools for shaping the future.)

I would qualify the material on anonymity and pragmatism and be a little more critical of the then recently martyred John F. Kennedy.

I don't want my president to «fall back on faith» for the most important decisions, I want my president to fall back on facts, pragmatism and the obvious morality that no religion can claim a monopoly on.

They've usually erred on the side of pragmatism, but someone sat on the caps lock this week, and the Indians are officially the most interesting buyer at the deadline.

Wenger has received plenty of praise for his tactics and easy on the eye brand of football in the past but has also been accused of lacking the pragmatism to do what it takes to win in the cut and thrust of the modern game.

So what we got in the end was a lesson on the poverty of pragmatism — or at least, this strange parody of pragmatism that United appear to be hooked upon.

Jose Mourinho gave us a timely reminder of just what pragmatism can mean on Monday night.

A former coach with Real Madrid Castilla, he has the requisite European pedigree that the club will require, but also the steely pragmatism that will win the club the league titles they have so sorely been missing out on.

But they're unbeaten in the last 5 derbies, and pragmatism suggests that trend will continue on Sunday.

And when I saw his cameo performance on Sunday I sadly didn't feel the same pang of sadness that I did the week before and sadly, the week before that because the more and more I start to think about the reality of the situation, the more that pragmatism kicks in for my mind.

His pragmatism and pride will surely gravitate toward plotting to engineer a clean sheet and hoping United can score on a set piece or a small number of shots.

But since my bleeding - heart liberal appeals are likely to be lost on you, I'll instead appeal your pragmatism: More than 35 percent of Texas schoolchildren are overweight or obese.

My basic argument is we should be trying to find a way of accommodating public concern over migration and to do it while remaining in the European Union... I still believe with a little bit of pragmatism on both sides it would be possible to reach [an agreement].»

Personal principles on matters of life and death prevent any movement towards pragmatism.

On such matters, she appeals to pragmatism.

On the Left, will Bernie's followers» passion rule, or will Clintonite pragmatism win the day?

While the views and editorial focus on QP represent my own insight as a Democrat, let's not get it confused with pragmatism and increasing accountability in ALL sectors of government and politics.

Though the resonance will cause politicos to salivate at the play's incisive analysis, director Roger Michell's elegant adaptation at the National Theatre's Lyttelton stage is also a fine comment on personal tragedy, historical relations between the sexes and the nature of pragmatism.

As the bulk of union effort in this race focuses on helping Corbyn, pragmatism will need to come from different sources.