Pragmatism: a new name for some old methods of thinking. Popular lectures on philosophy

The book of an outstanding American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), which is proposed to the reader, is dedicated to pragmatism, is popular lectures on philosophy, which were read by the author in 1906-1907. In Lavell and Colombian universities. In the book, an attempt was made to draw in general terms the 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 outlined, such as the problem of substance, materialism, expediency, the problem of freedom of will, etc. Separately, the author considers the correlation of pragmatism and common sense of 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