Scott L. Pratt

Pratt completed his PhD in 1995, writing his dissertation on John Dewey's philosophy of education, and began his career at the University of Oregon that year.

[3] Pratt also served as editor of the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, one of the foremost journals dedicated to American philosophy.

This spatial and temporal shift constitutes what sociologist Patricia Hill Collins refers to as much-needed criticism of "pragmatism's assumptions concerning power relations and social inequality...strategies [that are] crucial for reform.

"[8] Pratt continued this line of thought in American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present, co-authored with Erin McKenna.

"[9] Focused on the theme of philosophies of resistance, they include a significant number of figures typically excluded from the philosophical tradition, such as Simon Pokagon, Ida Wells-Barnett, and T. Thomas Fortune, among others.