John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics

While examining the important role of imagination in making moral
judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the
relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. Steven Fesmire takes up threads
of Dewey's thought that have been largely unexplored and elaborates pragmatism's
distinctive contribution to understandings of moral experience, inquiry, and
judgment. Building on two Deweyan notions -- that moral character, belief, and
reasoning are part of a social and...