{"id":17940,"date":"2017-01-10T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17940"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:12:26","slug":"factsvaluesstrategies-a-mini-conference-at-tufts-universitys-tisch-college-of-civic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17940","title":{"rendered":"Facts\/Values\/Strategies: a mini-conference at Tufts\u2019 University\u2019s Tisch College of Civic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Current global crises of democracy raise fundamental questions about how citizens can be responsible and effective actors, whether they are combating racism in the United States, protecting human rights in the Middle East, or addressing climate change. If \u201ccitizens\u201d are people who strive to leave their communities greater and more beautiful (as in the Athenian citizen\u2019s oath), then their thinking must combine facts, values, and strategies, because all three must influence any wise decision. Mainstream scholarship distinguishes facts, values, and strategies, assigning them to different branches of the academy. Many critics have noted the philosophical shortcomings of the fact\/value distinction, but citizens need accounts of how facts, values, and strategies can be recombined, both in theory and in practice. John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Mahatma Gandhi, J\u00fcrgen Habermas, Amartya Sen\u2014and many other theorists of citizenship\u2014have offered such accounts.<\/p>\n

Actual civic movements also combine facts, values, and strategies in distinctive ways. For instance, the American Civil Rights Movement used the language of prophesy, and Second Wave Feminism strategically advocated new ways of knowing.<\/p>\n

These papers propose theoretical, methodological, historical, and empirical responses and case-studies related to the question: how should citizens put facts, values, and strategies together?<\/p>\n

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