This is great investigation! As a former doctoral student in Philosophy, I ultimately gave up on “traditional” philosophy in favor of the work of B.F. Skinner, who in my view was the ultimate Pragmatist in the way you describe it with a big “P.” Although he was often misunderstood by those who read his work superficially, or apparently did not read it with comprehension (e.g., Noam Chomsky), his more philosophical writing was, for example, non-dual (although he did not describe it as such) and very much in alignment with those who understand “meaning” to be based on use and empirical demonstration. His research was an open-ended investigation of what factors in the environment could be discovered to influence human behavior, both “inner” behavior and “outer” behavior. The science and technologies that came out of his “Radical Behaviorism” continue to influence just about every aspect of management, education, therapy, psychology, and so many other areas of human activity — despite protests by those who view it as “mechanistic.” It is no more mechanistic than our understanding of karma or interdependent origination. And it is certainly consistent with the “systems thinking” that I believe is at the root of Obama’s second-tier approach to governance.

Thank you very much for this blog. I hope you will investigate some of Skinner’s work as part of your research, including perhaps some of his collections of essays.