Detritus and Desiderata: An Interpretation of Authority in the Modern Age

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (3):365 - 387 (2001)
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Articulation and defense of Pragmatism against epistemic critiques leveled by historian John Patrick Diggins. Argues that the inferential structure of pragmatist epistemic authority is misunderstood by Diggins and by other critics. Defends both classical and neo-pragmatist naturalism via inferentialism.

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Nick C. Sagos
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