Research Catalog

Title

The origins of pragmatism: studies in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, by A.J. Ayer.

Author

Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.

Publication

San Francisco, Freeman, Cooper [1968]

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Details

Description

x, 336 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914
• James, William, 1842-1910
• James, William, 1842-1910
• Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914
• Pragmatism
• pragmatism
• Pragmatisme

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Charles Sanders Pierce -- The bases of Peirce's pragmatism -- His theory of truth -- His theory of meaning -- What is belief -- Operations on concepts -- Concessions to realism -- Peirce's philosophy of science -- The three kinds of reasoning -- The justification of induction -- The factor of chance -- Peirce's categories and his theory of signs -- The three categories -- Feeling and perception -- Facts and laws -- The interpretation of signs -- The division of signs -- Types and tokens -- Icons, indices and symbols -- Propositions and their subjects -- Appraisal of Peirce's theory of signs -- William James -- The will to believe and the pragmatic theory of truth -- James's emotional commitments -- The nature of truth -- Truth in relation to matters of fact -- A priori truths -- Moral and aesthetic judgements -- The will and its freedom -- The place of religious belief -- Radical empiricism -- The data of experience -- Sensation and perception -- The genesis of space -- The genesis of time -- The analysis of memory -- The knower and the known -- The concept of the self -- A theory of personal identity -- Percepts and concepts -- The construction of the physical world -- Experiences in their double aspect -- The basis of the construction -- The question of privacy -- The construction outlined -- On what there is.

LCCN

68021669

OCLC

• ocm00372013
• 372013
• SCSB-2052236

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library