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Eino Kaila on Pragmatism and Religion: An Introduction to Kaila’s 1912 Essay on William James
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 47, Number 2, Spring 2011
- pp. 146-157
- Article
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This essay introduces Eino Kaila’s 1912 essay on William James, which appears in this issue as an English translation by Heikki A. Kovalainen. It is argued that Kaila, in addition to playing an important role in the reception of Jamesian pragmatism in Finland and Scandinavia in the 1910s, made a modestly original contribution to pragmatism by his notion of “practical testability.” Kaila’s and James’s views are also critically compared with regard to the tension between monism and pluralism, in particular.