Brendan Hogan delivers opening lecture in doctoral seminar at University of Ghent

Brendan Hogan delivered the inaugural lecture of a doctoral seminar on Pragmatism and Social Science that he co-organized with the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at the University of Ghent. Hogan's lecture, Critique and Reconstruction: pragmatism, social science, and democracy, served to introduce the audience to the ways in which a pragmatic approach to social problems changes our understanding of the practice and function of social science in a democratic society.

Brendan Hogan specializes in pragmatic philosophy, philosophy of social science and political philosophy and has explored questions about the normative status of democracy and the relationship between imagination, critique, and human agency.