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9780847692736

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

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    9780847692736

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    0847692736

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-06
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Harvey Cormier is assistant professor of philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction: Pragmatism and the Real
1(24)
A Genealogy of Truth; or, Twilight of the Idle
25(26)
James, Peirce, and the Seed of Death
51(38)
Pragmatism and Skepticism; or, The Pragmatist Keeps on Searching
89(18)
The Ideal Becomes the Real: Pragmatism and ``Empirical Realism''
107(48)
The One and the Many: Gramsci and Cornel West on James
155(26)
Index 181(8)
About the Author 189

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