Abstract
Pragmatism sees continuity between the problem-solving efforts of experts and lay citizens. All problem-solving is experimental inquiry under conditions of uncertainty, and involves a number of inquirers rather than the solitary thinker. Social problem-solving in particular features an ever-changing agenda to which particular sorts of expertise may be relevant, but for which any single sort of expertise is rarely conclusive. In this context, the decisive test of any argument or claim is to be found in its application in political problem-solving practice. Publics can then be constituted around particular problem-solving efforts (though Dewey also spoke of the public).
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