Pragmatism

by William James

Paper Book, 1995

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Available

Call number

144.3 Jam

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Publication

New York : Dover Publications, 1995.

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..

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LibraryThing member mykl-s

Pragmatism, a new name for some old ways of thinking (1907) by William James (2009)

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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

that rationality becomes too unwieldy for use.

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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

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.

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