Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (Works of William James) - Softcover

William James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603864148 ISBN 13: 9781603864145

Publisher: Rough Draft Printing, 2011

Synopsis

An unabridged, unaltered edition of both Pragmatism and the sequel The Meaning of Truth -

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About the Author:

William James (1842 –1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City. He was the son of Henry James Sr., an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day. The intellectual brilliance of the James family milieu and the remarkable epistolary talents of several of its members have made them a subject of continuing interest to historians, biographers, and critics. James interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars throughout his life, including his godfather Ralph Waldo Emerson, his godson William James Sidis, as well as Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Josiah Royce, Ernst Mach, John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr., Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud.

From the Back Cover:

James attacks the transcendental, rationalist tradition in philosophy and tries to clear the ground for the doctrine he called radical empiricism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rough Draft Printing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1603864148
• ISBN 13: 9781603864145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280