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M.L. Friedline
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Pragmatist, Pluralist, Tapir Enthusiast
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Hope to see everyone this afternoon at our roundtable on Facing Threats to Democracy. It should be a great conversation!

The line-up of panelists has changed slightly from what is listed in the app. Here is the updated version: #AARSBL25 #SBLAAR25
Saturday 3-4:30 pm, Hynes Convention center 206 Session Title: Facing Threats to Democracy, lessons from pragmatism Panelists are Lisa Sowle Cahill, David Lamberth, Chris Tirres, and David Evans
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Calling all pragmatists! 2 more days to submit a proposal to the pragmatism and empiricism unit of AAR. Check out our CFP and submit proposals here papers.aarweb.org/group/14974
Classical Pragmatist Roots and Contemporary Fruits The Boston area is the birthplace of American Pragmatism. Charles Peirce was born in Cambridge, and William James spent much of his career teaching at Harvard. Both were shaped by the insights of the proto-pragmatism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Furthermore, Alain Locke and W.E.B Du Bois were both students of James who went on to make important pragmatism-inflected contributions to American and African-American thought and specifically influenced the Harlem Renaissance. The classical Pragmatists developed robust theories of psychology (especially James’ theories of affect and emotion) and experience (especially Peirce’s insights into truth, goodness, and beauty through empirical inquiry). We invite papers that consider how the insights of the classical pragmatists can help us think through and address contemporary issues, including: Navigating our current information ecosystem and resisting misinformation Considerations of epistemic responsibility Theories of affect and emotion, especially as it relates to knowledge, motivation and breaking down the thinking/feeling binary. Questions of normativity in thought and action Approaches to learning through experience and experimentation Feminist and Womanist thought, especially ethics and epistemology
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Lovely orange mushrooms (possibly enoki?) peaking out from the beneath leaves.
A group of orange mushrooms with shiny caps growing near the base of a tree and partially covered with dead leaves
December 31, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Since I followed you from an ungrading starter pack, let me plug a roundtable I'm on that might interest you. its on pedagogy and power/open and relational pedagogies. I'll be talking about alt grading, not sure how the other panelists are approaching the topic.
November 19, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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A beautiful mushroom emerges from its egg
August 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM