Pragmatism and Four Essays from the Meaning of Truth
Author: William James
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 292
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Author: William James
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Published: 1909
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William James
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780452006607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents include an introduction by Bruce Kuklick, bibliography and textual note, and eight lectures on pragmatism by William James delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, NY, (Lecture 1: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, Lecture 2: What Pragmatism Means, Lecture 3: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, Lecture 4: The One and the Many, Lecture 5: Pragmatism and Common Sense, Lecture 6: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth, Lecture 7: Pragmatism and Humanism, Lecture 8: Pragmatism and Religion).
Author: William James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0028471407
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Author: Harvey Cormier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0847692736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Sanders Peirce complained that William James allowed pragmatism to become infected with seeds of death like the idea that truth is mutable. This volume aims to defend James's pragmatic theory from a range of critics including Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Hilary Putnam, and Cornel West.
Author: William James
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1473374790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rare book contains an introduction to William James's ideas of philosophical pragmatism. Written in the highly readable and enjoyable style James is renowned for, this book will appeal not only to philosophy enthusiasts, but also to anyone in love with the possibilities of English prose. This fascinating book elucidates the reasons why students of philosophy are still reading his ideas a century after the lectures that comprise this work were delivered. Comprised of eight lectures given in Boston and New York in 1906 and 1907, this book provides a great summary of some of James's most important philosophical ideas and constitutes a must-read for anyone interested in this great philosopher's work. This book was originally published in 1907 and is proudly republished here with a new prefatory biography of its author. William James was an American psychologist and philosopher, hailed as the 'father of American psychology'. His other notable works include: Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Meaning of Truth (1909).
Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0674979222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical “positions” as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. In this new collection, he and Ruth Anna Putnam argue that key elements of the classical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey provide a framework for the most progressive and forward-looking forms of philosophy in contemporary thought. The Putnams present a compelling defense of the radical originality of the philosophical ideas of James and Dewey and their usefulness in confronting the urgent social, political, and moral problems of the twenty-first century. Pragmatism as a Way of Life brings together almost all of the Putnams’ pragmatist writings—essays they wrote as individuals and as coauthors. The pragmatism they endorse, though respectful of the sciences, is an open experience-based philosophy of our everyday lives that trenchantly criticizes the fact/value dualism running through contemporary culture. Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values, while Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around, illuminating the factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a shared vision which, in Hilary’s words, “could serve as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.”
Author: Christopher Hookway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0199588384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers. He illuminates how Peirce's writings on truth, science, and the nature of meaning contribute to philosophical understanding in ongoing debates.
Author: William James
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-04-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1101221615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.
Author: Sami Pihlström
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1009051504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of religion, Pihlström argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth. James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.
Author: Cheryl Misak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0191020044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism, Peirce and James, developed this idea in more (Peirce) and less (James) objective ways. The standard story of the reception of American pragmatism in England is that Russell and Moore savaged James's theory, and that pragmatism has never fully recovered. An alternative, and underappreciated, story is told here. The brilliant Cambridge mathematician, philosopher and economist, Frank Ramsey, was in the mid-1920s heavily influenced by the almost-unheard-of Peirce and was developing a pragmatist position of great promise. He then transmitted that pragmatism to his friend Wittgenstein, although had Ramsey lived past the age of 26 to see what Wittgenstein did with that position, Ramsey would not have like what he saw.