Pragmatism: a new name for some old methods of thinking. James U.

The book of an outstanding American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) proposed to the reader, dedicated to pragmatism, is popular lectures on philosophy, which were read by the author in 1906-1907. In Lavell and Colombian universities. The book made an attempt to draw in general terms a picture of pragmatism as a philosophical course, as it seems to the author. Pragmatism as a method, its history, character, its opposite to rationalism and intellectualism are described; From the point of view of pragmatism, some metaphysical problems are presented, such as the problem of substance, materialism, expediency, the problem of free will, etc. Separately, the author considers the ratio of pragmatism and common sense, pragmatism and humanism, pragmatism and religion. The book is recommended for philosophers, historians of philosophy, as well as to everyone who wants to get acquainted with the history of various directions of foreign philosophical thought.