Sound ones …

… Five Answers on Pragmatism (2018) | Susan Haack - Academia.edu. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Alarm at Rorty’s relativist excesses and defensiveness about the incursions of would-be philosophers from the literature departments seems to have led —  not, as with the classical pragmatists, to a broader and deeper conception of the philosophical enterprise — but to a profound self-absorption. And, to the degree to which this hermeticism has taken hold in the profession, it has emboldened neo-analytic philosophers to aspire to colonize and domesticate previously outlaw territories. In consequence, we see new, blandly analytic styles of feminist philosophy, social epistemology, etc.; and, most to the present purpose, the kidnapping of the word “pragmatism” for projects in the pragmatics of language — as with Robert Brandom’s “analytic pragmatism,” premised on an idea of meaning-as-use and a Rorty-esque conception of justification-as-social-practice. Though Brandom occasionally alludes to Dewey, insofar as I understand this very confusingly expressed congeries of ideas, it seems to have no deep affinity with classical pragmatism …