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2023 Erraticus Award Winners Announced

Erraticus experienced an increased number of blog posts responding to essay contributions, revealing readers’ eagerness to engage in meaningful dialogue.

‘Good Enough’: 2023 Year in Review

Amidst a year filled with literary essays, the recent passing of philosopher John Lachs enables us to reflect deeply on mortality and why we should…

An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically

While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.

Give Me Beta-Modernism, Instead

If metamodernism means a future without tragic conflicts, maybe we’re better off with beta-modernism, instead.

2022 Year in Review: More Meliorism, Please

In a year replete with hardships for so many people, Erraticus contributors concentrated on the themes of hope and meliorism.

Why We Won’t Ever Arrive at Truth

A defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.

2022 Erraticus Award Winners Pit Peirce Against James

A year heavy with pragmatist themes, the Editorial Team is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Erraticus Awards: Jon Alan Schmidt and Nick…

Truth as Pragmatism’s Only Hope

Although some pragmatists argue truth is malleable and constantly changing, logician Charles Sanders Peirce asserts it is our knowledge of truth that is variable, not…