Truth Is What Works : William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death

Name: Truth Is What Works
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9780847692736
Price: 6850 KES
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ISBN: 9780847692736

by Harvey Cormier

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0847692736

ISBN-13 9780847692736

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 6th, 2000

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 250 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 14.70 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: History of Western philosophy Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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Charles Sanders Peirce complained that William James allowed pragmatism to become "infected" with "seeds of death" like the idea that truth is mutable. This volume aims to defend James's pragmatic theory from a range of critics including Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Hilary Putnam, and Cornel West.

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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