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Maryville Colleges Dr. Andrew Irvine, associate professor of philosophy & religion, invited Captain Sharon Moore of the Maryville Police Department, and immigration lawyer and defense attorney, Charles Carpenter, to his American Philosophy class on Pragmatism this morning. Irvine says: Pragmatism is an America philosophical tradition that prides itself on being a philosophy of democracy. Pragmatist philosophers have long pursued the vocation of helping us think our way through challenges to democratic ways of life. Without doubt one of the greatest of such challenges, in the past and still today, is the consequences of American ideas of race. In the aftermath of the August shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, MO, I felt I couldn’t teach the class and ignore that. But I didn’t want us just to speculate about somewhere else.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:04:07 +0000

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