Publication
New York : Dover Publications, 1995. Originally published: London ; New York : Longmans Green, 1907. OCLC Number: 31434697. x, 116 pages ; 22 cm.
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WP / James
ISBN
0486282708 / 9780486282701
Original publication date
1907
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Physical description
x, 116 p.; 22 cm
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Description
Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML: William James was an influential American thinker who was deeply interested in the burgeoning philosophy of psychology. This volume contains two lectures he delivered on the philosophy of pragmatism..
Language
Original language
English
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LibraryThing member mykl-s
Pragmatism, a new name for some old ways of thinking (1907) by William James (2009)
LibraryThing member jpsnow
It's easy to see how this would be so readily adopted by Dewey and other reformers, since Truth is really just a conveyance to an end. I'm not quite as critical as that might seem. James is convincing in his argument that the other philosophers rely too much on abstraction and logic, when much of
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that rationality becomes too unwieldy for use. Show Less
LibraryThing member KidSisyphus
James is too happy for my tastes.
LibraryThing member ShadowBarbara
bought 2/21/2014. Is from lectures delivered at Harvard--long sentences, hard to get the point.
LibraryThing member steve02476
I can’t “rate” this book because I only understood a tiny fraction of it. It’s a series of 8 lectures, and I had the impression it was not delivered to professional philosophers or even to philosophy students - but the attendees must have been quite well educated if they had any chance of
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comprehending the lectures. The book was published in 1907 but I think the lectures may have been given several years before that. Anyway, I “read” the book in some sense but vast portions were completely meaningless to me. Oh well. I’m really fascinated by philosophy, but so much of it is impenetrable for me. Show Less