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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

William James

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 131 pages

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking gathers William James's 1906–1907 lectures on the pragmatic method in philosophy. He presents pragmatism as a way of assessing ideas by their practical consequences and unifying diverse philosophical tendencies. It invites listeners to consider how beliefs work in experience.

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PRAGMATISM
A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
By William James
To the Memory of John Stuart Mill
from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind
and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader were he
alive to-day.
Preface
The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell
Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in
January, 1907, at Columbia University, in New York. They

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  2. PRAGMATISM

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