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William James Pragmatism in Focus
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This book presents William James's Pragmatism together with critical commentary and focuses on the theories of meaning and truth central to Pragmatism. It includes several articles three of which were roughly contemporaneous with the publication of Pragmatism.
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INDEX
Absolute 10, 27-8, 32, 42, 49-53, 63-4, 66, 68, 71, 77, 125, 128-9, 134, 137, 141, 150, 152, 153, 189, 206; advantages 235-6; consequences 78, 128-9; hypothesis 206; theory 84-5; use 130, 146-8; world of 137
abstract/tions 34-7, 48, 219-20; ideas 71, 104, 127; principles 57-8
agree/ment 99, 115, 162; defined 105-6
Ampère, André-Marie 95
anti-realism 5-6
Archimedes 97
Aristotle 41, 109, 243
assertion theory 223-7
Ayer, A.J. 222-3, 226; The Origins of Pragmatism 232
Balfour, Arthur James, The Foundations of Belief 62
beliefs 101, 110, 113, 190-5, 201, 204, 207-9, 215, 228n, 243;
consequences 145-7, 152-3
Bergson, Henry 120
Berkeley, George 4, 41, 55-6, 57, 93, 95, 113, 151
bivalence, thesis 5
Black, Max 22, 223
Bosanquet, Bernard 27
Bradey, F.H. 77, 120, 123; Appearance and Reality 32
Browning, Robert 59
Caird, Edward 27, 36, 119
Caird, John 27
categories 91, 92, 94
causal unity 75-6
causality 90
Chesterton, G.K., Heretics 21
Clerk-Maxwell, James 99, 107
common sense 93, 94, 107, 151, 196-7; consolidated stage 95-6; as good judgement 88; suspicion 97-8
concepts 93; defined 58-9; systems 89
concrete 218-20; consequence 41
correspon...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- PRAGMATISM
- I The Present Dilemma in Philosophy
- II What Pragmatism Means
- III Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered
- IV The One and the Many
- V Pragmatism and Common Sense
- VI Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
- VII Pragmatism and Humanism
- VIII Pragmatism and Religion
- MEANING AND METAPHYSICS IN JAMES
- TRUTH AND ITS VERIFICATION
- PROFESSOR JAMES'S 'PRAGMATISM'
- WILLIAM JAMES'S CONCEPTION OF TRUTH
- NOTES ON THE PRAGMATIC THEORY OF TRUTH
- WAS WILLIAM JAMES TELLING THE TRUTH AFTER ALL?
- Index