The American pragmatists
Subtitle: selected writings.
By: Edited by Milton R. Konvitz and Gail Kennedy.
Contributors: Kennedy, Gail, 1900- joint ed.
Series: Meridian books, M105
Publisher: Meridian Books
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Pragmatism.
Description: Includes writings on pragmatism by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George Herbert Mead, Percy W. Bridgman, C.I. Lewis, Horace M. Kallen, Sidney Hook, and, especially, William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: pagenum: 12
title: 7 FOREWORD 11 RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) Challenge; pagenum: 15
title: Discipline; pagenum: 21
title: Prospects; pagenum: 28
title: 27 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910) What Pragmatism Means; pagenum: 44
title: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth; pagenum: 61
title: The Pragmatist Account of Truth and Its Misunderstanders; pagenum: 80
title: 78 CHARLES S PEIRCE (1839-1914) The Rules of Philosophy; pagenum: 82
title: The Fixation of Belief; pagenum: 99
title: How to Make Our Ideas Clear; pagenum: 119
title: Issues of Pragmaticism; pagenum: 127
title: The Doctrine of Necessity Examined; pagenum: 144
title: 143 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR (1841-1935) The Path of the Law; pagenum: 166
title: "The Best Test of Truth   ."; pagenum: 171
title: Words That Create "A Clear and Present Danger"; pagenum: 175
title: 173 JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) Philosophy and Civilization; pagenum: 183
title: The Supremacy of Method; pagenum: 201
title: The Construction of Good; pagenum: 226
title: Science and Society; pagenum: 236
title: Experience, Nature and Art; pagenum: 240
title: Religion versus the Religious; pagenum: 258
title: 257 GEORGE HERBERT MEAD (1863-1931) The Genesis of the Self and Social Control; pagenum: 282
title: 281 PERCY W BRIDGMAN (1882-1961) Broad Points of View; pagenum: 305
title: 303 C.I LEWIS (1883- ) A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori; pagenum: 317
title: 316 HORACE M KALLEN (1882- ) That You Can Change Human Nature; pagenum: 342
title: The Esthetic Experience; pagenum: 360
title: 358 SIDNEY HOOK (1902- ) The Centrality of Method; pagenum: 379
title: The Justifications of Democracy