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Do Not Block Inquiry: Philosophy in America—Peirce and Socrates

Abstract: This paper joins Carlin Romano in challenging philosophers in America for their narrow focus while urging that the signs of openness and inclusiveness continue. It explores Romano’s idea of “America” as an agora for debate, argument, and the search for truth, but seeks the models for philosophical practices not so much in Rorty and Isocrates but in William James and the Socratic model. A central question for contemporary philosophical and agora discussion is how can we pursue democratic deliberation and the search for social justice in an context of seeming irreducible difference?