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Pragmatic theories of truth were first posited by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. The common features of these theories are a reliance on the pragmatic maxim as a means of clarifying the meanings of difficult concepts such as truth ; and an emphasis on the fact that belief , certainty , knowledge , or truth is the result ...
Ultimately James made a pragmatic argument for religion, writing that "the uses of religion, its uses to the individual who has it, and the uses of the individual himself to the world, are the best arguments that truth is in it". [15] As an example of this he gives the therapeutic effects of prayer. [16]
"The Will to Believe" by William James; Expressivist analysis of James' essay. "James' Will to Believe Argument" entry from Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. First Edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published 2011.
William James in Brazil, 1865. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City on January 11, 1842. He was the son of Henry James Sr., a noted and independently wealthy Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day.
Charles Peirce: the American polymath who first identified pragmatism. Pragmatism as a philosophical movement began in the United States around 1870. [2] Charles Sanders Peirce (and his pragmatic maxim) is given credit for its development, [3] along with later 20th-century contributors, William James and John Dewey. [4]
James, William, "The Sentiment of Rationality," in John J. McDermott, ed., The Writings of William James (New York: The Modern Library, 1968), 317–345; Jordan, Jeff, "The Ethics of Belief," in Jeff Jordan, Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 37–72
William James 1842–1910 F. C. S. Schiller 1863–1937. It is sometimes stated that James' and other philosophers' use of the word pragmatism so dismayed Peirce that he renamed his own variant pragmaticism. Susan Haack has disagreed, [19] pointing out the context in which Peirce publicly introduced the latter term in 1905. Haack's excerpt of ...
The William James Lectures are a series of invited lectureships at Harvard University sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, who alternate in the selection of speakers. The series was created in honor of the American pragmatist philosopher and psychologist William James , a former faculty member at that institution.