Neopragmatism

Putnam, in Words and Life (1994), enumerates the ideas in the Classical Pragmatist tradition, which newer pragmatists find most compelling. To paraphrase Putnam:

1. antiscepticism (the notion that doubt requires justification just as much as belief);
   


2. fallibilism (the view that there are no metaphysical guarantees against the need to revise a belief);
   


3. antidualism about "facts" and "values";
   that practice, properly construed, is primary in philosophy.

Three Basic Moves. Linguistic pragmatism revises pragmatism in three basic moves.

First, one applauds pragmatists such as James and Dewey for repudiating a variety of methods and goals in traditional philosophy.

Second, one renounces their attempts to reconstruct what should not be reconstructed.

Finally, once one accepts the idea that only language is available to furnish philosophy's materiel. This step complete, one can create freely, even poetically, to serve whatever ends seem best.

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