[FRIAM] Is America's essential philosophy pragmatism?

[Jochen Fromm]

"Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the Enlightenment push for absolute truth. The pragmatists — people like William James and John Dewey — were less interested in certainty and more concerned with immediate experience"https://www.vox.com/2022/6/5/23143285/vox-conversations-cornel-west-american-pragmatismThe essential insight of the pragmatists – whether Peirce, William James or John Dewey – was their recognition of the value of the subjective aspects of human experience. Thus, they did not view feelings and speculation as degraded junior partners to rational science. Rather, they understood them as an essential ingredient in the construction of meaning.https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/07/ask-the-author-justice-oliver-wendell-holmes-and-the-loneliness-of-original-work/-J.
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