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

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,...