William James: The will to believe.
“The Will to Believe” is a lecture William James gave to the Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown Universities. Published in the New World, June, 1896. It defends, in certain cases, the...
Category: Pragmatism
Charles Peirce: How to Make our Ideas Clear. 1878
Source: How to make our Ideas Clear (1878), from: Writings of Charles S Peirce, Volume 3, Indiana University Press. I am quoting sections 2,3, and 4. II The principles set...
Pragmatism
Description of Pragmatism from the Stanford Encyclopedia: “Pragmatism was a philosophical tradition that originated in the United States around 1870. The most important of the ‘classical pragmatists’ were Charles Sanders...
John Dewey: The Ego as Cause. 1894
This short article by Dewey was first published in Philosophical Review, 3, 337-341. Pretty much all libertarians nowadays insist that their doctrine of freedom of will is quite distinct from...
William James: Does Consciousness Exist?
First published in Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1, 477-491. 1904. ‘Thoughts’ and ‘things’ are names for two sorts of object, which common sense will always find contrasted...
