 Addams’s life work—involving both place-based local activism and global outreach—is a powerful illustration of enacting experimental values under specific conditions through an iterative process of concrete experience and reflective theorizing. Rather than a philosophic retreat from the events and textures of everyday life, feminist pragmatists have chosen to do philosophy in an interactive and public mode. Marilyn Fischer describes Addams’s activism and writing as “an experiment in real time of the process of democratic, pragmatist political reconstruction”. She continues by labeling her activism as the “the sort of concrete experience from which pragmatist theory emerges and to which it must return for validation” (2013: 229). In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing Democracy and Social Ethics (2019), Fischer shows that Addams, in analyzing the most pressing social issues of her day, drew on a vast array of international intellectual resources, most notably from theorists across the disciplines who patterned their work on evolutionary biology. By showing that Addams was a more wide-ranging intellectual than has been documented to date, Fischer’s work also expands our understanding of the roots of classical American pragmatism.