Pragmatism: References & Edit History

Classic works on pragmatism include Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief,” “How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” and “What Pragmatism Is,” in Collected Papers, vol. 5, ed. by C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss (1934); William James, Principles of Psychology, 2 vol. (1890), The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897), Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907), and The Meaning of Truth (1909); and John Dewey, How We Think (1910), The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy (1910), Democracy and Education (1916), Essays in Experimental Logic (1916), Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920, 1948), Human Nature and Conduct (1922), Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938), Theory of Valuation (1939), and Problems of Men (1946). F.C.S. Schiller is the subject of R. Abel, The Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S. Schiller (1955), with a bibliography of Schiller’s writings. French and Italian pragmatists are discussed in H.S. Thayer, Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism, part 3 (1968), with further bibliographical references.

Surveys of the movement include H.S. Thayer, Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism (1968), with bibliography; Sandra B. Rosenthal, Speculative Pragmatism (1986); Charles W. Morris, The Pragmatic Movement in American Philosophy (1970); Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey, A History of Philosophy in America, 2 vol. (1977); and John Edwin Smith, Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of Pragmatism (1978).