Pragmatism


Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
Philosophical Writings of Peirce
Reconstruction in Philosophy
Democracy and Education
Experience and Education
Experience and Nature
Pragmatism and Other Writings
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Art as Experience
Pragmatism: A Reader
Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980
The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. HayekThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Writings of William James by William  JamesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Erraticus Must Reads
31 books — 7 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
271 books — 94 voters

Mind in Life by Evan ThompsonDrop by Helen McKibbenThe Embodied Mind by Francisco J. VarelaLucas by Alison BellringerWhat Computers Still Can't Do by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Embodied Cognition
105 books — 44 voters
Hilary Putnam, l'heritage pragmatiste by Claudine TiercelinWittgenstein and William James by Russell B. GoodmanA Pluralistic Universe by William  JamesThe Varieties of Religious Experience by William  JamesRenewing Philosophy by Hilary Putnam
The Pragmatist's Reading List
42 books — 1 voter

The Last Dragon Slayer by Martyn StanleyThe Verkreath Horror by Martyn StanleyJourney Through The Dark by Erin CuellarThe Princess and the Plumber in... Beast to Beauty by M David LutzBeyond the Mural by Ryan  McNeill
Deathsworn Arc
14 books — 12 voters

H.L. Mencken
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to re ...more
H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

Graham Greene
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? ...more
Graham Greene, The Quiet American

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