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Title: The Meaning of Truth (Great Books in Philosophy) by William James ISBN: 1-57392-138-6 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Intellectual Fun
Comment: In 1907 William James published a book of his recently delivered lectures called "Pragmatism" in which he detailed the links he found betwen the pragmatic frame of mind and the philosophical situation of his time. They caused a storm of controversy. Most particularly James's pragmatic musings on "truth" went down, with some, like a lead balloon. With "The Meaning of Truth" James meant to buttress his claims about truth and repel the barbs of his rationalistic enemies.
The key essay in the book in many ways is the third "Humanism and Truth". "Humanism" is James's preferred name for pragmatism. Here James lays out his thesis on truth as being a matter of continuity of experience and of useful relations with things. James always resisted the notion, commonly ascribed to many so-called pragmatists and relativists, that they "make it all up". Here James suggests that experience as a control is no mere fancy. James claimed to be constrained in his theorising about truth and constrained by the world that is empirically there all around us.
Read this book if you want a statement of James's position on truth or if you want pragmatist insights into the same topic. Or read it for plain intellectual fun. Its arguments are deceptively simple and particularly persuasive.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'D RATE IT A 11 OUT OF 10!
Comment: This is a great book, I really recomend the reading. Talk about very important issues about men, woman and the society in general. Is very insteresting we undestand the live phases involving the person you are.
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Title: Pragmatism by William James ISBN: 0486282708 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 02 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James ISBN: 0684842971 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Will to Believe, Human Immortality by William James ISBN: 0486202917 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Principles of Psychology (Volume 1) by William James ISBN: 0486203816 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1950 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Centenary Edition by William James ISBN: 0415278090 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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