Pragmatism

Genre(s): *non-fiction, Essays & Short Works, Philosophy

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 6 hours and 32 minutes

Language: English

'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining lashes towards rationalism and other competing schools of thought. James is especially concerned with the pragmatic view of truth. True beliefs should be defined as, according to James, beliefs that can successfully assist people in their everyday life. This is claimed to not be relativism. That reality exists is argued to be a fact true beyond the human subject. James argues, nevertheless, that people select which parts of reality are made relevant and how they are understood to relate to each other. Charles Sanders Peirce, widely considered to be the founder of pragmatism, eventually chose to separate himself intellectually from James, renaming his own theory to ‘pragmaticism’.

Preface (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 1: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 1: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 2: What Pragmatism Means, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 2: What Pragmatism Means, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 3: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 3: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 4: The One and the Many, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 4: The One and the Many, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 5: Pragmatism and Common Sense, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 5: Pragmatism and Common Sense, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 6: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth. part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 6: Pragmatism's Conception of Truth. part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 7: Pragmatism and Humanism, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 7: Pragmatism and Humanism, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 8: Pragmatism and Religion, part 1 (Fredrik Karlsson)

Lecture 8: Pragmatism and Religion, part 2 (Fredrik Karlsson)

The audiobook Pragmatism falls under the genres of *non-fiction, Essays & Short Works, Philosophy. It is written by William James.

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