Download or read book Pragmatism written by William James and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: The University of Adelaide Library eBooks @ Adelaide.
Download or read book Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought written by Richard A. Hocks and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination of Henry's mind and the way in which his work dramatized a particular philosophical attitude through its unique and felicitous style. Originally published in 1974. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Pragmatism and Other Writings written by William James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.
Download or read book Pragmatism written by William James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-06-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted psychologist and philosopher develops his own brand of pragmatism, based on theories of C. S. Peirce. Emphasis on "radical empiricism," versus the transcendental and rationalist tradition. One of the most important books in American philosophy. Note.
Download or read book Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism written by Gregory Phipps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatism from a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populate the narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James’s work. Cultivated during a postwar era of industrial change and economic growth, pragmatism emerged in the late nineteenth century as the new shape of American intellectual identity. Charles Peirce, William James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. were close friends who founded different branches of pragmatism while writing on a vast array of topics. Skeptical about philosophy, William James’s brother, Henry, stood at the margins of this group, crafting his own version of pragmatism through his novels and short stories. Gregory Phipps argues that James’s fiction weaves together the varied depictions of individuality, society, experience, and truth found in the works of Peirce, Holmes, and William James. By doing so, James brings to narrative life a defining moment in American intellectual and material history.
Download or read book Pragmatism written by William James and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1955 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include an introduction by Bruce Kuklick, bibliography and textual note, and eight lectures on pragmatism by William James delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, NY, (Lecture 1: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, Lecture 2: What Pragmatism Means, Lecture 3: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, Lecture 4: The One and the Many, Lecture 5: Pragmatism and Common Sense, Lecture 6: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth, Lecture 7: Pragmatism and Humanism, Lecture 8: Pragmatism and Religion).
Download or read book The Meaning of Truth written by William James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of a leading figure in the transition from a predominantly European-centered 19th-century philosophy to a new American philosophy, this volume presents a full and definitive expression of the pragmatist epistemology. It encompasses everything James had hitherto written on the theory of knowledge, including later polemic and expository contributions, and replies to previous criticism.
Download or read book Pragmatism written by William James and published by ARC Manor. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of lectures given by William James at the Lowell Institute in Boston and Columbia University in New York from November 1906 to January 1907. Discusses aspects of pragmatism in relation to concepts such as religion, philosophy and other like subjects.
Download or read book Pragmatism a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking The Meaning of Truth a Sequel to Pragmatism written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatism is the most famous single work of American philosophy. Its sequel, The Meaning of Truth, is its imperative and inevitable companion. The definitive texts of both works are here available for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by the distinguished contemporary philosopher A. J. Ayer. In Pragmatism James attacked the transcendental, rationalist tradition in philosophy and tried to clear the ground for the doctrine he called radical empiricism. When first published, the book caused an uproar. It was greeted with praise, hostility, ridicule. Determined to clarify his views, James collected nine essays he had written on this subject before he wrote Pragmatism and six written later in response to criticisms by Bertrand Russell and others. He published The Meaning of Truth in 1909, the year before his death. These two works show James at his best full of verve and good humor. Intent upon making difficult ideas clear, he is characteristically vigorous in his effort to make them prevail.
Download or read book On Some of Life s Ideals written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pragmatism Selections written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sick Souls Healthy Minds written by John Kaag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James. In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled Is Life Worth Living? It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. THis is an introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology - and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous - can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the sick-souled, those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of healthy-mindedness an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James. Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, this may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read.
Download or read book Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking written by William James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking" by William James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Manuscript Lectures written by William James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of The Works of William James provides a full record of James's teaching career at Harvard from 1872-1907. It includes working notes for lectures in more than 20 courses. Because his teaching was closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.
Download or read book Essays in Philosophy written by William James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between 1876 and 1910. They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems. Several of the essays, like "The Sentiment of Rationality" and "The Knowing of Things Together," are of particular significance in the development of the views of James's later works. All of them, as John McDermott says in his Introduction, are in a style that is "engaging and personal...witty, acerbic, compassionate, and polemical." Whether he is writing an article for the Nation of a definition of "Experience" for Baldwin's Dictionary or "The Mad Absolute" for the Journal of Philosophy, James is always unmistakably himself, and always readable.
Download or read book Some Problems of Philosophy written by William James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step by step the reader is introduced, through analysis of the fundamental problems of Being, the relation of thoughts to things, novelty, causation, and the Infinite, to the original philosophical synthesis that James called radical empiricism. This is the seventh volume to be published in The Works of William James.
Download or read book The Writings of William James written by John J. McDermott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of writings by the legendary philosopher, whose sweeping body of work influenced our ideas about psychology, religion, free will, and pragmatism. In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing the importance of radical empiricism and placing into perspective the doctrines of pragmatism and the will to believe. The critical periods of James's life are highlighted to illuminate the development of his philosophical and psychological thought. The anthology features representative selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Will to Believe, and The Variety of Religious Experience in addition to the complete Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe. The original 1907 edition of Pragmatism is included, as well as classic selections from all of James's other major works. Of particular significance for James scholarship is the supplemented version of Ralph Barton Perry's Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James.
