Thanks to author Smith we have here a high, wide and impressive, if
not particularly definitive, demonstration that pragmatism was and
still is the golden pinnacle of American philosophy. The author's
survey, which regrettably eliminates the complementary work of
British humanist Schiller, the operational theory of physicist
Bridgman and the prediction theory of Justice Holmes, amply
elaborates on and soundly elucidates the work of the four masters
involved: Peirce, Royce, James and Dewey along with a concluding
appraisal of Whitehead, or that part of Whitehead's oeuvre which
proved an off-shoot of the movement. Generally all asked the why,
where, how and when of thinking; all raged against Cartesian
subjectivism, Baconian nominalism, all believed in progress through
knowledge; all were, more or less, evolutionary, naturalistic and
scientifically experimental, from Peirce's doctrine of chance,
continuity and love to James' rational world for the solving of
practical concerns, Royce's principle of community and Dewey's
instrumentalism. A boon for students. (Kirkus Reviews)
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