A "Prophetic" version of this philosophy has been attributed to Cornell West, while Richard Rorty has developed a modified version and wrote a 1982 book about the "Consequences" of it.  
A "Prophetic" version of this philosophy has been attributed to Cornell West, while Richard Rorty has developed a modified version and wrote a 1982 book about the "Consequences" of it.  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote a book applying this philosophical "ism" to the law.  Revived in the 1950s by Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism, its first major proponent was Charles Sanders Peirce.  FTP, identify this theory arguing that practical use is the test of truth and which is associated with John Dewey and William James.
A "Prophetic" version of this philosophy has been attributed to Cornell West, while Richard Rorty has developed a modified version and wrote a 1982 book about the "Consequences" of it.  
pragmatism