Pragmatism

A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

by

William James

eBooks@Adelaide
2009

First published in 1907.

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Last updated Friday March 13 2009.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Lecture:
  1. The Present Dilemma in Philosophy
  2. What Pragmatism Means
  3. Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered
  4. The One and the Many
  5. Pragmatism and Common Sense
  6. Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth
  7. Pragmatism and Humanism
  8. Pragmatism and Religion

To the Memory of John Stuart Mill

from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader were he alive today.

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