Philosophy 170: Great Philosophers
The American Pragmatists

Course Notes

copyright 1998, 1999, and 2000 by Tad Beckman, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

Contents

• Background Essays
• Introduction to Pragmatism and the American Context
• An Outline of Charles Sanders Peirce's Life
• An Outline of William James' Life
• An Outline of John Dewey's Life
• Comments on Texts
• Peirce
• James
• School and Society
• Theory of the Moral Life
• Reconstruction in Philosophy
• Democracy and Education
• Freedom and Culture

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