| The Truth Is What Works: William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death Contributor(s): Cormier, Harvey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847692736 ISBN-13: 9780847692736 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: Charles Sanders Peirce complained that James allowed pragmatism to become infected with seeds of death like the idea that truth is mutable. The Truth is What Works is an attempt to defend James's pragmatic theory of truth from a wide range of critics including Peirce, Betrand Russell, Hilary Putnam, and Cornel West. Cormier runs the gauntlet of historical and contemporary criticism in an attempt to show, not that Jamesian pragmatism does in fact contain a perfectly good theory of objective reality after all, but rather that it doesn't, and is still a kind of realism anyway because it does not leave individuals and their subjective desires behind in an attempt to describe the real world. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 191 |
| LCCN: 99059829 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.68 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Charles Sanders Peirce complained that James allowed pragmatism to become 'infected' with 'seeds of death' like the idea that truth is mutable. The Truth is What Works is an attempt to defend James's pragmatic theory of truth from a wide range of critics including Peirce, Betrand Russell, Hilary Putnam, and Cornel West. Cormier runs the gauntlet of historical and contemporary criticism in an attempt to show, not that Jamesian pragmatism does in fact contain a perfectly good theory of objective reality after all, but rather that it doesn't, and is still a kind of realism anyway because it does not leave individuals and their subjective desires behind in an attempt to describe the real world. |