실용주의 철학과 행정학 = Pragmatism and Public Administration

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper introduces the ideas of major philosophers along with the background of the times of pragmatism, and presents important elements of pragmatic philosophy and public administration processes. Pragmatism is a unique American philosophy that reflects the pioneering era. Peirce, James, and Dewey, known as classical pragmatists, are the main philosophers of pragmatism, and their ideas are summarized as experimentalism, pragmatic effect, anti-fundamentalism, anti-formalism, situationalism, temporary view of knowledge, fallibilism, inquiry community, pluralism, and participatory democracy. Public administration scholars began to introduce classical pragmatism into public administration in the 1980s, and the study of pragmatic public administration has been active since the 2000s, with the result that many studies have been conducted. Taking suggestions from these studies, this paper established an administrative process (creative thinking and decision-making, implementation of decision, results of implementation, feedback), and combined the above eight elements (from anti-fundamentalism to participatory democracy) of pragmatic philosophy to present a pragmatic public administrative process theory. This pragmatic public administrative process is evaluated to be useful in solving new and intractable problems.