ABSTRACT
First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey.
Alongside providing a general historical and biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers an in depth critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four main thinkers of the pragmatist movement, with reference to the theories of meaning, knowledge and conduct which have come to define pragmatism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part |81 pages
Part One Charles Sanders Peirce
chapter |10 pages
I Biographical Comments
chapter |9 pages
II Peirce's Cosmology
chapter |10 pages
III Peirce's Cosmology: Critical Remarks
chapter |16 pages
IV Peirce's Critique of Descartes
chapter |7 pages
V Peirce's Theory of Inquiry
chapter |11 pages
VI Peirce's Theory of Inquiry: Critical Remarks
chapter |7 pages
VII The Pragmatic Maxim
chapter |9 pages
VIII Peirce's Educational and Religious Ideas
part |54 pages
Part Two William James
chapter |5 pages
I Biographical Comments
chapter |5 pages
II Peirce and James on Truth 1
chapter |5 pages
III James's Notion of Satisfaction
chapter |7 pages
IV James and the Mutability of Truth
chapter |5 pages
V James's Psychological Views: General Remarks
chapter |8 pages
VI James's Treatment of Habit
chapter |17 pages
VII James's View of Thought
part |38 pages
Part Three George Herbert Mead
chapter |3 pages
I Biographical Comments
chapter |4 pages
II Mead's Social Behaviourism
chapter |11 pages
III Mead on Mind, Self, and Society
chapter |3 pages
IV Mead and the Mind-Body Problem
chapter |5 pages
V Mead on Explanation
chapter |3 pages
VI Mead's Stage Theory as Explanatory
chapter |7 pages
VII Mead's Analysis of Symbolism
part |71 pages
Part Four John Dewey