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Author Konvitz, Milton R. (Milton Ridvas), 1908-2003.

Title The American pragmatists : selected writings / edited by Milton R. Konvitz and Gail Kennedy.

Imprint New York : Meridian Books, c1960.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  144.3 K837a, 1960    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 413 p. ; 18 cm.
Series Meridian books, M105
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Challenge -- Discipline -- Prospects -- William James (1842-1910): What pragmatism means -- Pragmatism's conception of truth -- The pragmatist account of truth and its misunderstanders -- Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) -- The rules of philosophy -- The fixation of belief -- How to make our ideas clear -- Issues of pragmaticism -- The doctrine of necessity examined -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) -- The path of the law -- "The best test of truth ..." -- Words that create "a clear and present danger" -- John Dewey (1859-1952): Philosophy and civilization -- The supremacy of method -- The construction of good -- Science and society -- Experience, nature and art -- Religion versus the religious -- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931): The genesis of the self and social control -- Percy W. Bridgman (1882- ): Broad points of view -- C.I. Lewis (1883- ): a pragmatic conception of the A priori -- Horace M. Kallen (1882- ): That you can change human nature -- The esthetic experience -- Sidney Hook (1902- ): The centrality of method -- The justification of democracy.
Summary Includes writings on pragmatism by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George Herbert Mead, Percy W. Bridgman, C. I. Lewis, Horace M. Kallen, Sidney Hook, and, especially, William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey.
Subject Pragmatism.
Added Author Kennedy, Gail, 1900-1972.

 
    
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