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Pragmatism

Author
William James
Read by
George Easton
Language
English
Length
5 hours 1 minute
ISBN
9781787366442
Published
26 March 2023
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Practicality
  • Consequences
  • Empiricism
  • Relativism
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Inquiry
  • Skepticism
  • Ethics

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Description

In this book, James argues that the most important criterion for evaluating ideas and beliefs is their practical usefulness in real-life situations, rather than their abstract truth or correspondence to reality. James introduces the concept of "pragmatism," which he defines as a method of approaching philosophical questions by examining their practical consequences. He argues that truth is not an absolute and fixed entity, but rather a relative and changing one that is determined by the practical outcomes of our beliefs and actions. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

William James (1842–1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist whose Principles of Psychology helped found psychology as a modern science and whose essays on belief, habit, and religious experience reshaped philosophy in the English-speaking world. Brother of the novelist Henry James, he wrote with unusual clarity about how the mind works and how truth is tested in experience.

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