Building Democratic Relations as a Remedy for Post-Truth Polarization: Dewey and Addams on Educating for Sympathetic Knowledge
Document Type
Conference Session
Publication Date
2-24-2025
Abstract
Panel: Civic Education for Democracy, Liberalism, and the Liberal Arts
2–3:30 p.m. | Bush Executive Center, Crummer Auditorium
We live in a highly polarized and divided democratic era, and we face new threats related to the nature of distinctively modern mechanisms for the dissemination and creation of knowledge in society. The dangers germane to these new ways of communication and information affect how we conceive of others and their claims and rights. Can the liberal arts rescue democracy from the ills of division, fake news, and hatred? Can philosophy as a public endeavor help achieve this goal? What strategies in the classroom are best to encourage the good of democracy? This panel will deal with these issues and similar others.
Panel Facilitators: H. James McLaughlin and Blake Robinson | Rollins College
Panelists:
- L. Ryan Musgrave | Rollins College | “Re-centering Florida's *Other* Higher Education Story: American Pragmatic Liberal Arts at Rollins College, Then and Now”
- Chris Voparil | Lynn University | “Building Democratic Relations as a Remedy for Post-Truth Polarization: Dewey and Addams on Educating for Sympathetic Knowledge”
- Nancy Arden McHugh | University of Dayton | “Pragmatic Principles to Move Higher Education from Extractive Engagement with Communities to Transformative Engagement”
- Mark Hopwood | The University of the South | “What is ‘Public Philosophy’?”
Host
Rollins College
Conference/Symposium
John Dewey, 90 Years Later: How the Liberal Arts Strengthen Democracy Conference
City/State
Winter Park, FL
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Recommended Citation
Voparil, C. (2025, February 24-25). Building democratic relations as a remedy for post-truth polarization: Dewey and Addams on educating for sympathetic knowledge [Conference session]. John Dewey, 90 Years Later: How the Liberal Arts Strengthen Democracy Conference, Winter Park, FL, United States.
