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Title: American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...

Title: Braving our blind spots : using a virtual book discussion group to continue conversations on implicit bias in libraries
Author: Harris, Ryan, Jones, Shannon, Bartley, Kelsa, DeSantis, Melissa, Jason, Don, Rios, Dede
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Diversity in higher education, Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Description: Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the workforce in libraries throughout the United States has been a strategic priority for years, yet statistically the homogeneous nature of library staffs remains the same. Statistics from the America...

Title: Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...

Title: Value in disruption : a “reading is research” pedagogy for library instruction
Author: Tingelstad, Catherine, Otis, Stephanie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Research--Methodology, Academic libraries
Description: Our collaborative project and resulting pedagogy emphasize student-centered learning and critical reading and introduce a disruptive challenge for students to question assumptions, challenge binary thinking, and tolerate ambiguity. Using class rea...