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The Meaning of Truth

Author
William James
Read by
George Easton
Language
English
Length
5 hours 16 minutes
ISBN
9781787366459
Published
26 March 2023
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • philosophy
  • truth
  • pragmatism
  • reality
  • belief
  • correspondence
  • experience
  • perspective
  • objectivity
  • subjectivity

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James’s Meaning of Truth: truth as something that happens in a life, not a statue in a museum. Pragmatism against the absolute, a quarrel with Plato, Kant, Hegel. Hear the American argument unabridged in English. Adelphi audiobook. Beliefs judged by what they let you do. Philosophy as a working brief. Listen to a mind that will not let ‘true’ mean only ‘copies the world’. Essays of a fight still worth hearing. Truth as process, spoken, not a slogan on a tea-towel.

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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