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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is an American philosophy classic by the great American writer and philosopher, William James.Pragmatism is a philosophical approa… mais…

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is an American philosophy classic by the great American writer and philosopher, William James.Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that seeks to both define truth and resolve metaphysical issues. William James demonstrates an application of his method in the form of a simple story:A live squirrel supposed to be clinging on one side of a tree-trunk; while over against the tree's opposite side a human being was imagined to stand. This human witness tries to get sight of the squirrel by moving rapidly round the tree, but no matter how fast he goes, the squirrel moves as fast in the opposite direction, and always keeps the tree between himself and the man, so that never a glimpse of him is caught. The resultant metaphysical problem now is this: Does the man go round the squirrel or not?James solves the issue by making a distinction between practical meaning. That is, the distinction between meanings of round. Round in the sense that the man occupies the space north, east, south, and west of the squirrel; and round in the sense that the man occupies the space facing the squirrel's belly, back and sides. Depending on what the debaters meant by going round, the answer would be clear. From this example James derives the definition of the pragmatic method: to settle metaphysical disputes, one must simply make a distinction of practical consequences between notions, then, the answer is either clear, or the dispute is idle.Both James and his colleague, Charles Sanders Peirce, coined the term cash value. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Philosophy>Philosophy>Philosophy, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

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What is “reality”? How do we test the value of any given philosophical system? Can philosophy be “useful”? Why must we reject the notion that there is one concrete… mais…

What is “reality”? How do we test the value of any given philosophical system? Can philosophy be “useful”? Why must we reject the notion that there is one concrete “truth”? American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the most influential academics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, over a series of eight lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in late 1906 and at Columbia University in early 1907, he explores these questions as he discusses: • “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy” • “What Pragmatism Means” • “Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered” • “The One and the Many” • “Pragmatism and Common Sense” • “Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth” • “Pragmatism and Humanism” • “Pragmatism and Religion” Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Philosophy>Philosophy>Philosophy, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

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Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James.. William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology." Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the major figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty, and has even influenced Presidents, such as Jimmy Carter., Philosophy<

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