Lastly, in the final section, I offer a statement on the potential value of adopting Deweyan pragmatism as a philosophy for design research involving practice and, as such, installing Dewey as an 'intellectual underwriter' of 'designerly knowledge production'....
He interprets Dewey, for example, as having at-tempted to ‘‘rub out’’ the distinctions between the arts, technos-cience, and philosophy, and to substitute for them a ‘‘vague and 56pragmatism as post-postmodernismuncontroversial notion of intelligence.’’12But, as I have noted else-...
Pragmatism as a research paradigm finds its philosophical foundation in the historical contributions of the philosophy of pragmatism (Maxcy 2003) and, as such, embraces plurality of methods. As a research paradigm, pragmatism is based on the proposition that researchers should use the philosophical and...