{"id":1033,"date":"2020-02-20T02:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2020-02-20T02:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:59:58","slug":"pragmatism-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/20\/pragmatism-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragmatism texts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m teaching a seminar on pragmatism again this semester, so I&#8217;ve updated some of the texts in my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/news4wombats\/pragmatism\">pragmatism and American philosophy repository<\/a>.  My habits for using git are terrible, so lots of small changes got swept together in one giant update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big addition is LaTeX and PDF files for William Clifford&#8217;s &#8220;The Ethics of Belief.&#8221; Although it&#8217;s in the public domain, I was unable to find an unabridged version anywhere on the net.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1033' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/20\/pragmatism-texts\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1033' title=' I realized that the version I used last time I taught Clifford was abridged, so this may have been the first time I&amp;#8217;ve ever read the whole thing.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> So I spent some time today making one.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1033' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/20\/pragmatism-texts\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1033' title=' It was actually procrastination, because I can&amp;#8217;t use it for my course. We did Clifford yersterday, using the scan of the original.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Starting from OCR on a scan of the 19th-century original, I fixed the formatting, cleaned up the transcription, and whatnot. There may still be some errors, but it&#8217;s better than anything else I could find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The update also adds the third lecture to James&#8217; <em>Pragmatism<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching a seminar on pragmatism again this semester, so I&#8217;ve updated some of the texts in my pragmatism and American philosophy repository. My habits for using git are terrible, so lots of small changes got swept together in one giant update. The big addition is LaTeX and PDF files for William Clifford&#8217;s &#8220;The Ethics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/20\/pragmatism-texts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pragmatism texts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,23,13],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-open-access","tag-pragmatism","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-gF","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}