Peirce frequently pointed out that the best work we do is not solitary work but the work of a community.In that spirit, I want to begin this article with gratitude to Jacob Goodson.That gratitude is not only for his book, The Philosopher's Playground, neither is it only for his growing and lucid corpus of writing on philosophy and religion, nor again is it for having introduced me to scriptural reasoning and to a broader SR community, including the editors of this current volume of JSR.My gratitude to Goodson arises from all of this and more.If I were to offer any criticism of Goodson's work, it would be that the apostrophe in the title of The Philosopher's Playground should be moved-making the possessive into a plural-in order to point out the importance of play and reason together and in community.In his introduction, Goodson points out that SR is hard to talk about broadly, but the how and the why are easier to approach.This, again, points to the embodied nature of both SR and pragmatism.Pragmatism, which has some of its deepest roots in the work of Peirce, is a philosophy that is inseparable from lived practice.We pragmatists work out our philosophy with attention to the broadest possible community across space and time.
David O'Hara (Wed,) studied this question.