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Updated: May 12, 2025
The publication in 1890 of James's great Principles of Psychology opened a new era in the history of that science. More than that, it was destined in the long run to work a transformation in philosophy as a whole, by introducing into it those biological and voluntaristic principles to which he afterwards applied the generic name of Pragmatism, or philosophy of action.
When James first defined and defended it, it provoked abundant protest, on the ground that it allowed everyone to believe whatever he pleased and to call it 'true. The critics had simply failed to see that verification by experience is just as integral a part of voluntaristic procedure as experimental postulation, and that James himself had from the first asserted this.
Kant's a priori activity of the mind may thus in a sense supply an answer to Hume but only in a voluntaristic philosophy which would probably have seemed too bold both to him and to Hume. There can be no doubt that we do not approach the data of perception in an attitude of quiescent resignation.
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