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The keen and widespread interest of all classes of readers in the philosophy of Bergson - an interest that was increased by his visits to the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and London - shows no sign of diminishing. The enthusiasm with which the 'New Philosophy' was at first welcomed seems, however, to be setting in the opposite direction, and the excessive praise and indiscriminating acceptance of his doctrines have now given place to a criticism no less indiscriminating and, perhaps, equally unjustifiable.
In the present state of public opinion, therefore, I venture to offer this essay which, although written from a so-called 'intellectualistic' standpoint diametrically opposed to M. Bergson's, is nevertheless not blind to the interest and importance of his work.
It is the fashion among present day philosophers to depreciate reason, and in the forefront of these are the French Voluntarists - especially the Bergsonian Intuitionists - and the Pragmatists. But in their methods and conclusions they are obviously opposed and an attempt is made to show that in nonsense can the French Voluntarists be classed as Pragmatists. In their treatment of the problem of truth this divergence becomes marked.
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The keen and widespread interest of all classes of readers in the philosophy of Bergson - an interest that was increased by his visits to the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and London - shows no sign of diminishing. The enthusiasm with which the 'New Philosophy' was at first welcomed seems, however, to be setting in the opposite direction, and the excessive praise and indiscriminating acceptance of his doctrines have now given place to a criticism no less indiscriminating and, perhaps, equally unjustifiable.
In the present state of public opinion, therefore, I venture to offer this essay which, although written from a so-called 'intellectualistic' standpoint diametrically opposed to M. Bergson's, is nevertheless not blind to the interest and importance of his work.
It is the fashion among present day philosophers to depreciate reason, and in the forefront of these are the French Voluntarists - especially the Bergsonian Intuitionists - and the Pragmatists. But in their methods and conclusions they are obviously opposed and an attempt is made to show that in nonsense can the French Voluntarists be classed as Pragmatists. In their treatment of the problem of truth this divergence becomes marked.
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Originally published in 1914, this book examines the French Voluntarist school of philosophy and the key ways in which it differs from the Pragmatists. Stebbing argues that Voluntarism and Pragmatism both prove inadequate in their definition of truth, and suggests that an acknowledgment of the 'non-existential character of truth' is needed.
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