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PrefaceThe lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute inBoston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, atColumbia University, in New York. They are printed … mais…

PrefaceThe lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute inBoston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, atColumbia University, in New York. They are printed as delivered,without developments or notes. The pragmatic movement, so-called--Ido not like the name, but apparently it is too late to change it--seems to have rather suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. Anumber of tendencies that have always existed in philosophy have allat once become conscious of themselves collectively, and of theircombined mission; and this has occurred in so many countries, andfrom so many different points of view, that much unconcertedstatement has resulted. I have sought to unify the picture as itpresents itself to my own eyes, dealing in broad strokes, andavoiding minute controversy. Much futile controversy might have beenavoided, I believe, if our critics had been willing to wait until wegot our message fairly out.If my lectures interest any reader in the general subject, he willdoubtless wish to read farther. I therefore give him a fewreferences.In America, John Dewey's 'Studies in Logical Theory' are thefoundation. Read also by Dewey the articles in the PhilosophicalReview, vol. xv, pp. 113 and 465, in Mind, vol. xv, p. 293, and inthe Journal of Philosophy, vol. iv, p. 197.Probably the best statements to begin with however, are F. C. S.Schiller's in his 'Studies in Humanism,' especially the essaysnumbered i, v, vi, vii, xviii and xix. His previous essays and ingeneral the polemic literature of the subject are fully referred toin his footnotes.Furthermore, see G. Milhaud: le Rationnel, 1898, and the finearticles by Le Roy in the Revue de Metaphysique, vols. 7, 8 and 9.Also articles by Blondel and de Sailly in the Annales de PhilosophieChretienne, 4me Serie, vols. 2 and 3. Papini announces a book onPragmatism, in the French language, to be published very soon.To avoid one misunderstanding at least, let me say that there is nological connection between pragmatism, as I understand it, and adoctrine which I have recently set forth as 'radical empiricism.'The latter stands on its own feet. One may entirely reject it andstill be a pragmatist.Harvard University, April, 1907. Digital Content>E-books>Philosophy>Philosophy>Philosophy, WDS Publishing Digital >16<

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