All American Pragmatism Articles

What Pragmatism Means

William James

1907

What Pragmatism Means William James Pragmatism – 1907 Download PDF What Pragmatism Means (1907) by William James SOME YEARS AGO, being with a camping party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find every one engaged in a ferocious metaphysical dispute. The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel – a live … Read more

What Pragmatism Is

Charles Peirce

1905

What Pragmatism Is Charles S. Peirce The Monist, 15:2 (April 1905), pp. 161-181. Download PDF What Pragmatism Is (1905) by Charles Sanders Peirce The writer of this article has been led by much experience to believe that every physicist, and every chemist, and, in short, every master in any department of experimental science, has had … Read more

Great Men and Their Environment

William James

1896

Great Men and Their Environment William James The Will to Believe – 1896 Download PDF Great Men and Their Environment (1896) by William James A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zoölogical evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on … Read more

The Will to Believe

William James

1896

The Will to Believe William James The Will to Believe – 1896 Download PDF The Will to Believe (1896) by William James In the recently published Life by Leslie Stephen of his brother, Fitz-James, there is an account of a school to which the latter went when he was a boy. The teacher, a certain … Read more

Evolutionary Love

Charles Peirce

1893

Evolutionary Love Charles S. Peirce The Monist, vol. 3, pp. 176-200 (1893) Download PDF Evolutionary Love (1893) by Charles Sanders Peirce 1. AT FIRST BLUSH. COUNTER-GOSPELS Philosophy, when just escaping from its golden pupa-skin, mythology, proclaimed the great evolutionary agency of the universe to be Love. Or, since this pirate-lingo, English, is poor in such-like … Read more

How to Make Our Ideas Clear

Charles Peirce

1878

How to Make Our Ideas Clear Charles S. Peirce Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), 286-302. Download PDF How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) by Charles Sanders Peirce I Whoever has looked into a modern treatise on logic of the common sort, will doubtless remember the two distinctions between clear and obscure conceptions, and between distinct and confused conceptions. They have lain … Read more

The Fixation on Belief

Charles Peirce

1877

The Fixation on Belief Charles S. Peirce Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15. Download PDF The Fixation of Belief (1877) by Charles Sanders Peirce I Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to … Read more

On a New List of Categories

Charles Peirce

1868

On a New List of Categories Charles S. Peirce American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7 (1868), pp. 287-298 Download PDF On a New List of Categories (1868) by Charles Sanders Peirce 1. This paper is based upon the theory already established, that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of sensuous impressions … Read more

Some Consequences of Four Incapacities

Charles Peirce

1868

Some Consequences of Four Incapacities Charles S. Peirce Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1868) 2, 140-157. Download PDF Some Consequences of Four Incapacities (1868) by Charles Sanders Peirce Descartes is the father of modern philosophy, and the spirit of Cartesianism — that which principally distinguishes it from the scholasticism which it displaced — may be compendiously … Read more