Sentences with phrase «pragmatism in»

Pragmatism in the fast moving world of technology is either the smartest move Microsoft can make, or the worst.

We are also skilled at the negotiating table: when we believe a settlement will achieve the most favorable results, we exercise reason and pragmatism in resolving important matters.

Brief Account on the 9th Latin American Congress of Arbitration: Dogmatism and Pragmatism in Arbitration

However, there is pragmatism in operation — in pursuit of harmonisation — because legal and judicial standards between EU member states are bound to vary.

Menon CJ and Loh J delivered a decision which was notable both for its robust dismissal of some of the academic arguments based on a close textual analysis of the applicable sub-clause and for its pragmatism in recognising the benefits of enhancing the enforcement of DABs.

I think most legal blogs and newsletters reflect their authors» lack of pragmatism in their approach to law.

Soon after, at Grist, blogger David Roberts weighed in with a post deriding Revkin and others (including me) for what he characterized as misplaced concessions and pragmatism in the face of extremist opposition and dire stakes.

Like a migratory fish probing upstream, he's exhibited remarkable agility and pragmatism in trying to reach a laudable goal — an energy menu for humanity that can work for the long haul.

Lotte Lyon's sculptures employ a pragmatism in the materials used, in the methods of assembly, and in the delivery of associative ideas.

The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life.

NY Art Book Fair September 19 — 22 Molly Nesbit's new book, The Pragmatism in the History of Art, will be available throughout the 2013 NY Art Book Fair at PS1 in Queens at table D04 Project Projects / Paper Monument.

Partying meets pragmatism in an enjoyable new exhibition exploring the exchange of ideas between pop artists with the bold, playful designers of the day, writes Rowan Moore

She has written a book about the French photographer Eugène Atget and in 2013, her first collection of essays, Pragmatism in the History of Art, was published.

There is perversity as well as pragmatism in the ways Deacon goes about making things.

The Pragmatism in the History of Art, the first volume in a collection of her essays, has just been published by Periscope Press.

The Pragmatism in the History of Art (Periscope, 2013) is the first volume of Pre-Occupations, a series collecting her essays; the second, Midnight: The Tempest Essays, was published in 2017 by Inventory Press.

This is the second book in her Pre-Occupations series, following The Pragmatism in the History of Art (2013).

She is pure pragmatism in a tough world with few options at her disposal, and she is doing what she must to save her own skin and protect those she loves.

A look at the decisions Obama has made since becoming the nominee — opting out of public financing, reversing course on the domestic surveillance bill, etc. — suggests a real strain of pragmatism in his thinking that further bolsters the «steady hand» argument when it comes to his vice presidential selection.

If this is correct we may hope to expect more pragmatism in fiscal policy over the next few years, rather than allowing a Conservative majority government to spark a determination to reduce the share of government spending and the size of the public sector, regardless of the costs.

She could have chosen pragmatism in the six days since the agreement, but instead has reverted to authoritarian, cakeist type, with predictable consequences.

Pragmatism in office is a necessary part of life in power.

2006 «Idealism and Pragmatism in the Creation of the Certified Midwife: The Development of Midwifery in New York and the New York Midwifery Practice Act of 1992» by Maureen May and Robbie Davis - Floyd.

Or were they years of pragmatism in the face of overwhelming oil money?

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.

Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism In a Globalizing World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge.

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

I wrote a book called Republocrat, for pity's sake, calling for a healthy degree of non-partisan pragmatism in our political thinking.

Demagogues of right and left will test the region's recent embrace of pro-business pragmatism in 2018.

Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping calls to challenge Beijing over issues of human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.

Not exact matches

In the resources sector, that sort of pragmatism can be unusual: Given the tremendous capital outlay involved in developing a mine, it's easy for executives to get attached to projects in anticipation of a payday that may never comIn the resources sector, that sort of pragmatism can be unusual: Given the tremendous capital outlay involved in developing a mine, it's easy for executives to get attached to projects in anticipation of a payday that may never comin developing a mine, it's easy for executives to get attached to projects in anticipation of a payday that may never comin anticipation of a payday that may never come.

Her arguments for encouraging women to work are based in pragmatism: letting talented women find employment is better for the economy.

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.

In fact, its only constant commitment is to 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.

For now, in the clean - energy world, Buffett's follow - the - money pragmatism has the upper hand.

In retrospect, Deng's pragmatism, which has guided the CCP's policy for most of the post-Mao era, has saved the one - party rule.

In his 15 years as Chief Big Ass (yes, that's his actual title), Smith has shown the knack for blending fast - growth pragmatism and innovative, big - picture planning.

«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.

Most of his career has been spent in emerging markets and with disruptive technologies, requiring innovation and pragmatism to capture value.

We live in a time of grand explanations of Obama — Dinesh D'Souza's post-colonialism, Stanley Kurtz's socialism, and James Kloppenburg's pragmatism have all come to the fore recently.

Drunk and in stupors are the christiandumbs folds» in - undulations becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for but rather against!

In that progressive circle of his childhood — the circle of the La Follette family and the reformist bureaucrats and academics of Madison, Wisconsin — «American patriotism, redistributionist economics, anticommunism, and Deweyan pragmatism went together easily and naturally.

Frogist I think the author is implying that we as a society are moving steadily and slowly in the direction of pragmatism.

Where America was once pragmatic — and gloriously so, in that the «can - do» mentality of Americans was part of what made the country great — that pragmatism has become tied to psychological needs.

Old - style pragmatism had a social purpose, in that it sought to work towards the common good.

I was always going to grow up between the prairies and the Rockies; I was always going to feel like a baffling mix of pragmatism and mysticism; I was always going to show up in Tulsa ready to become who I really had wanted to be all along.

Both Bergson and Alexander influenced Alfred North Whitehead, whose scientific and philosophical genius created the major work in process thought, Process and Reality.39 There are close affinities between the process philosophers and American pragmatism.

As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.

What Rorty favors in pragmatism is its nominalism and its historicism.