Pragmatism and French Voluntarism: With Especial Reference to the Notion of Truth in the Development of French Philosophy

by L. Susan Stebbing, Lilian Knowles (Editor)

Overview

The book as whole is stimulating, if only for the questions which it raises in the mind of the reader. The author's grouping of voluntarists may seem at times more or less arbitrary, and her treatment of other questions than that concerning the nature of truth somewhat confusing. In passing it may be remarked that the treatment of Fouillée's philosophy of "Idées-forces" should properly have been reserved for a separate work; for the author's general discussion of voluntarism and pragmatism, as opposed to intellectualism, leaves little room for an adequate treatment of a philosopher who was at once a voluntarist and an intellectualist, and who opposed with equal vigor the intuitionism of M. Bergson and the pragmatism of James.

-The Philosophical Review, Volume 24

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663579553
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Series:	Girton College Studies , #6
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

L. Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis. and was the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom, as well as the first female President of Humanists UK.