Pragmatism

Fredson Bowers is Linden Kent Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. Ignas K. Skrupskelis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

• Foreword Introduction by H.S. Thayer Pragmatism Index Notes A Note on the Pragmatism Apparatus Emendations Textual Notes Historical Collation Alternations in the Manuscripts Word-Vision Appendixes 1. Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results 2. Report of the Wellesley Lectures, 1905 3. James's manuscript Outlines of Lectures 4. Lectures 6: James's Note of his Son's Criticism General Index Key to the Pagination of Editions

The meanings—twenty? thirty?—of "pragmatism" continue to be a central question in American philosophy and intellectual history. A chance to see the development and working of James's own mind from the inside, as it were, should do much to help us understand where he himself stood and what he himself meant…In brief, scholars, students, and the general reading public should all display an interest in a critical edition of James's works.