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