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The Insistence of Possibles: Towards a Speculative Pragmatism

par Debaise, Didier ;Stengers, Isabelle
Référence Parse journal, 7, page (12-19)
Publication Publié, 2017

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This article strives to continue the lure of Whitehead’s call: that “Philosophy cannot exclude anything”. Thus speculative philosophy extends William James’s radical empiricism. Its task is to locate itself on the ground of experience in its multifariousness, and to preserve what experience makes important. But importance can never be reduced to a matter of fact. To make a situation important consists in intensifying the sense of the possible that it holds in itself and that insists in it, through struggles and claims for another way of making it exist.