The Truth Is What Works: William James, Pragmatism, and the

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

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.

Country	USA
Author	Harvey Cormier
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Rowman Littlefield Publishers
EAN	9780847692736
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0847692736
Label	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2000-12-06
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Studio	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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