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William James (1907) begins his chapter on "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth" [7] in much the same letter and spirit as the above selection from Peirce (1906), noting the nominal definition of truth as a plausible point of departure, but immediately observing that the pragmatist's quest for the meaning of truth can only begin, not end there.
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.
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.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James.It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1901 and 1902.
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]
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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 ...