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

by Harvey Cormier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847692728
• ISBN13: 9780847692729
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages