A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.
Reprints a collection of texts on the American philosophy of pragmatism, written by a variety of authors including its founder William James, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and literary critic Richard Poirier.
Examines the development of an American philosophy between the end of the Civil War and 1919 by exploring the lives of four key metaphysical thinkers: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.
