Michael Bacon

Associate Professor in Political Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Michael Bacon is associate professor in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written two books about pragmatism, and is writing one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and another on psychoanalysis.

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To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist

Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances

by Michael Bacon