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Pragmatism

Pragmatism

William James · 1907

8 chapters · 128 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Lecture I — The Present Dilemma in Philosophy

~34 min · 16 pages

Lecture II — What Pragmatism Means

~35 min · 17 pages

Lecture III — Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered

~35 min · 17 pages

Lecture IV — The One and the Many

~32 min · 16 pages

Lecture V — Pragmatism and Common Sense

~26 min · 13 pages

Lecture VI — Pragmatism's Conception of Truth

~36 min · 16 pages

Lecture VII — Pragmatism and Humanism

~29 min · 14 pages

Lecture VIII — Pragmatism and Religion

~41 min · 19 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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