Pragmatism and other writings
By: William James ; edited with an introduction and notes by Giles Gunn.
Contributors: Gunn, Giles B.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Philosophy.; Pragmatism.; Psychology.
Description: "James's essays seek to bring his readers into the processes and play of his own reflections. Ranging across the intellectual terrain from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging and enduring articulation of that distinctly American contribution to world thought, pragmatism.".

"This collection presents, in its entirety, Pragmatism, the seminal set of lectures in which James argues for the "reasonableness of ordinary experience." Also gathered here are selections from James's other formative works, including The Meaning of Truth, Psychology, The Will to Believe, and Talks to Teachers on Psychology.

Throughout these essays the fecund power of imagination is restored to the operations of rationality by James, whom George Santayana hailed as "an impulsive poet: a master in the art of recording or divining the lyric quality of experience.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pragmatism; title: From The meaning of truth; title: From Psychology, briefer course; title: From The will to believe and other essays in popular philosophy; title: From Talks to teachers on psychology, and to students on some of life's ideals; title: Address at the centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: A world of pure experience; title: Is radical empiricism solipsistic?