Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of ThinkingWilliam 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. |
Contents
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Lecture II What Pragmatism Means | 34 |
Lecture III Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered | 62 |
Lecture IV The One and the Many | 89 |
Lecture V Pragmatism and Common Sense | 114 |
Lecture VI Pragmatisms Conception of Truth | 135 |
Lecture VII Pragmatism and Humanism | 163 |
Lecture VIII Pragmatism and Religion | 186 |
Endnotes | 208 |
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