Conversation Piece?

The human conversation, which academics learn from and contribute to in their inquiries, requires that they take sides to suggest radical change. Here, I reflect on ways in which those adopting a pragmatic stance may contribute to this elastic conversation. The means available for analytic inquiry include assemblage, bricolage, collage, critical reading, and all forms of writing. A pragmatic approach may help academics suggest radical action to address what Dewey called the problems of man but does not purport to offer a final analysis. Instead, pragmatists are committed to experiment and to keep the conversation going.