This article seeks to defend and develop a stakeholder pragmatism advanced in some of the work by Edward Freeman and … colleagues. By positioning stakeholder pragmatism more in line with the democratic and ethical base in American pragmatism (as … developed by William James, John Dewey and Richard Rorty), the article sets forth a fallibilistic stakeholder pragmatism that …

's System of Profound Knowledge about ethics and sustainability and argues that they are related to the philosophy of pragmatism … pioneers of the classical American pragmatism movement to Deming, arguing pragmatism is an appropriate paradigm for some …