# Blog

## [2023 Erraticus Award Winners Announced](/content/2024/01/01/2023-erraticus-award-winners-announced/index.html)
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](/content/2023/12/31/good-enough-2023-year-in-review/index.html)
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](/content/2023/04/24/an-ironist-must-learn-to-listen-poetically/index.html)
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](/content/2023/04/04/give-me-beta-modernism-instead/index.html)
If metamodernism means a future without tragic conflicts, maybe we’re better off with beta-modernism, instead.

## [2022 Year in Review: More Meliorism, Please](/content/2023/01/04/2022-year-in-review-more-meliorism-please/index.html)
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](/content/2023/01/03/why-we-wont-ever-arrive-at-truth/index.html)
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](/content/2022/12/23/2022-erraticus-award-winners-pit-peirce-against-james/index.html)
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](/content/2022/11/28/truth-as-pragmatisms-only-hope/index.html)
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…