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Pragmatism

Pragmatism

James, William
Bowers, Fredson
Skrupskelis, Ignas K.

Hardcover

Series: Works of William James, Book 10

PhilosophyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0674697359
ISBN13: 9780674697355
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 1 1975
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.53
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.58
Language: English

It is absolutely the only philosophy with no humbug in it, an exhilarated William James wrote to a friend early in 1907. And later that year, after finishing the proofs of his little book, he wrote to his brother Henry: I shouldn't be surprised if ten years hence it should be rated as 'epoch-making, ' for of the definitive triumph of that general way of thinking I can entertain no doubt whatever--I believe it to be something quite like the protestant reformation.

Both the acclaim and outcry that greeted Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking helped to affirm James's conviction. For it was in Pragmatism that he confronted older philosophic methods with the pragmatic method, demanding that ideas be tested by their relation to life and their effects in experience. James's reasoning and conclusions in Pragmatism have exerted a profound influence on philosophy in this century, and the book remains a landmark.

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