This is made in philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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Baseball may be popular in America, but the sport hasn't really taken hold in many other countries in the world.

Its philosophical equivalent is pragmatism.

It's sometimes called American pragmatism because it's three major figures,

Charles Perce, William James and John Dury were all Americans writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pagmatism is described as a movement which masks the fact that its leading figures had major philosophical differences.

Opponents of pragmatism say it's dangerous in all its forms.

It's a type they say of pernicious relativism.

For some objective truth about pragmatism,

we turn to a leading authority on the subject.

Robert Talese of Vanderbilt University.

Bob Talese, welcome to Philosophy Bights.

Thank you, Nigel.

The topic we're going to focus on today is pragmatism.

Pragmatism in philosophy is a bit different from pragmatism,

as that word is used in everyday life.

Could you just outline what it is?

What is this movement known as pragmatism?

Sure.

Pragmatism begins at the turn of the 20th century,

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