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Pragmatism a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

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Pragmatism a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

One of the great American pragmatic philosophers alongside Peirce and Dewey, William James (1842 1910) delivered these eight lectures in Boston and New York in the winter of 1906 7. Though he credits Peirce with coining the term 'pragmatism', James highlights in his subtitle that this 'new name' describes a philosophical temperament as old as Socrates. The pragmatic approach, he says, takes a middle way between rationalism's airy principles and empiricism's hard facts. James' pragmatism is both a method of interpreting ideas by their practical consequences and an epistemology which identifies truths according to their useful outcomes. Furnished with many examples, the lectures illustrate pragmatism's response to classic problems such as the question of free will versus determinism. Published in 1907, this work further develops James's approach to religion and morality, introduced in The Will to Believe (1897) and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), both reissued in this series.

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ISBN 13 9789387867284
ISBN 10 9387867285
Title Pragmatism a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Author William James
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Year published 2021-07-01
Number of pages 144
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