ABSTRACT
The pragmatism I shall articulate and defend has its pedigree in the work of the founder of pragmatism and one of the brightest intellectual lights of the turn of the century – C.S. Peirce. His orneriness and the poor judgement of Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities combined to thwart his attempts to obtain a permanent post. He died a hungry oddity on the fringes of academia, leaving piles of manuscripts and fragments on a wide range of topics. Some of the thoughts one finds there are in tension with each other and many must be rejected. But there is a strand in Peirce’s work that I think presents a sustainable view of truth and objectivity, not bettered by any subsequent pragmatist.
