William James (1842-1910) is a canonical figure of American pragmatism. Trained as a medical doctor, James was more engaged by psychology and philosophy and wrote a foundational text, Pragmatism, for this characteristically American way of thinking. Distilling the main currents of James's thought, W
William James Pragmatism in Focus
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 268
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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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Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's <i>William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism</i> is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions
Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's <i>William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism</i> is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions
<p>Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's <i>William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism</i> is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to and a pioneering rereading of James's thought.</p>