Lloyd on Hermeneutic Pragmatism & Truth

Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest University School of Law) has posted Rejecting Trumpery: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law (Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, Forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: In these times of Trump, the hermeneutic pragmatism set forth in this article examines how “post-truth” claims over-estimate semantic freedoms while under-estimating semantic and pre-semantic restraints. Such pragmatism also examines how formalists err by committing the reverse error. Drawing on insights from James, Peirce, Putnam, Rorty, Gadamer, Derrida, and others, such hermeneutic pragmatism explores (1) the necessary role of both internal and objective experience in meaning, (2) the resulting instrumental nature of concepts required to deal with such experience; (3) the related need for workability of concepts as applied to “the collectivity of experience’s demands, nothing being…

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