Official Pragmatism. (English).

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  • Source:
    Nation. 7/18/1907, Vol. 85 Issue 2194, p57-58. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      PRAGMATISM (Book : James); JAMES, William, 1842-1910; PRAGMATISM; IDEALISM; PHILOSOPHY; THEORY
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information on the book "Pragmatism. Popular Lectures on Philosophy," by William James. The subject is one well suitable to popular treatment, for the pragmatic position is essentially that of the average man, of the man in the street. Furthermore professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustration and by simple language he attracts attention and wins assent. He observes that Pragmatism is not a new, but an old, way of thinking. The third stage in the career of Pragmatism is where its adversaries assert that they have discovered the theory, for if the theory is to be vindicated it must be by the intellectualist's, not by the pragmatist's method.