Pragmatism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2008年8月16日 · When William James published a series of lectures on ‘Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking’ in 1907, he began by identifying ‘The Present Dilemma in Philosophy’ (1907: 9ff), a fundamental and apparently irresoluble clash between two ways of thinking, which he promised pragmatism would overcome.
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2019年3月21日 · Peirce’s contemporary, the psychologist and philosopher William James (1842–1910), often gets credit for popularizing the pragmatic theory of truth. In a series of popular lectures and articles, James offers an account of truth that, like Peirce’s, is grounded in the practical role played by the concept of truth.
In his Pragmatism,1 William James characterizes truth in terms of usefulness and acceptance. In general, on his view, truth is found by attending to the practical consequences of ideas.
Pragmatism, by William James - Project Gutenberg
2013年7月2日 · Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in philosophy, the empiricist attitude, but it represents it, as it seems to me, both in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed.
James offers the “oddly-named thing pragmatism.” Pragmatism has conciliatory power, James believes, because it “unstiffens theories” as a method of inquiry and is a “smoother-over of transitions” as a theory of truth. Pragmatism limbers theories such as rationalism and empiricism by
William James - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2000年9月7日 · In “A Pluralistic Universe” he defends the mystical and anti-pragmatic view that concepts distort rather than reveal reality, and in his influential Pragmatism (1907), he presents systematically a set of views about truth, knowledge, reality, religion, and philosophy that permeate his writings from the late 1870s onwards. 1.
Chapter 30. "Pragmatic Theory of Truth" by William James
Explain James' thesis concerning the pragmatic theory of truth. What do the words "verification" and "validation" themselves pragmatically mean? James writes that "our ideas 'agree' with reality." How does this description differ from the suggestion that true ideas correspond with facts?
James, William | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
There he developed his pragmatic epistemology, which considers the meaning of ideas and the truth of beliefs not abstractly, but in terms of the practical difference they can make in people’s lives. He explored the implications of this theory in areas of religious belief, metaphysics, human freedom and moral values, and social philosophy.
The Pragmatism of William James and Truth - Academia.edu
Using William James's pragmatism as my primary example, I show (1) that James defended realist and pluralist views in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion, and (2) that these views not only cohere with his pragmatism but indeed are basic to it.
on the Pragmatism lectures that helps the reader to connect to the broader work of William James, dispels unfair caricatures of pragmatism, highlights James’s contributions to the emergence of Classical Pragmatism, and establishes his continuing relevance. Schwartz sufficiently warrants the need to separate of