Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

The Complementarity of Means and Ends: Putnam, Pragmatism, and the Critique of Economic Rationality, by Brendan Hogan and Lawrence Marcelle

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Brendan Hogan is Clinical Associate Professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His publications include “Imagination, Imaginaries, and Emancipation,” Pragmatism Today (2015), “Criticism and Pragmatic Philosophy of Social Science,” in Figuras de la Dominación, ed. José Manuel Bermudo (Horsoi Editorial, 2014), and “Agency, Political Economy and the Transnational Democratic Ideal,” Ethics and Global Politics (2010).

Lawrence Marcelle is Adjunct Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University and in Continuing Education at Parsons School of Design. His publications include (with Brendan Hogan) “Any Democracy Worth Its Name: Bernstein’s Democratic Ethos and a Role for Representation,” in Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, ed. Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and (with Brendan Hogan) “Abstract Objectivity: Richard J. Bernstein’s critique of Hilary Putnam,” in Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Rekindling Pragmatism’s Fire, ed. Judith Green (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Brendan Hogan and Lawrence Marcelle, “The Complementarity of Means and Ends: Putnam, Pragmatism, and the Critique of Economic Rationality,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38:2 (2017), pp. 401-28.

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