Analyzing The Pramatic Philosophy Of James

James was the father of American pragmatism philosophy. His philosophy is mainly empiricism route of carries Hume, Kant, and contemporary positivism thoughts, meanwhile strongly against by Bergson'rationalism and Renault's only will socialist. He expressed the Pragmatism philosophy put forward by Peel such person, make it become the systematic philosophical theory. James's philosophy reflected the pragmatist's spirit temperament not only in the content, but also in the way.This paper was divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, it briefly explained the history origin, theoretical characteristic, pragmatism history evolution and spread of James'pragmatism,. The emergence of Pragmatism and spread of historical roots were basically the same with the other modern bourgeois philosophical schools at this period. Peel was the founder of pragmatism philosophy, James was the founder of Philosophical movement, and Dewey was the parents of the holy family in American pragmatism. Chapter 2 was the basic content of James pragmatism. James called the theory about experience to radical empiricism, which this showed his attitude to the fundamental question of philosophy, and at the same time, radical empiricism was the important theoretical basis of his pragmatism. The radical empiricism of James was that treat everything in the world as experience and treat the whole world as a purely experience. Truth is the core content of James'pragmatism, which made the truthful of conception and the subjective utility of conception to be equal.James thought that the truth was a guide process; it was a full contact between the two parts of experience. Suppose a concept is true, then it must have the valuable guidance function, so it is a useful experience, the name of the idea completed the role is "useful". Have the role of ability to be the truth. The truthful of concept is based on the effectiveness of the concept, whether the concept can achieve the desired effect, still needs to be proved, and the process of confirmation is process of a concept becomes truth. It is the argument after putting forward the useful according to this, which has an important position in pragmatism philosophy.Chapter 3 expressed the criticism of the traditional pragmatism philosophy of James. The traditional philosophy divide the world into hearts and substances, his purpose is to gain the recognition of truly matter, the transfixion problem of spirit and physical can not be explained by traditional philosophy. James against traditional philosophy broke the traditional philosophy thought of the subjective and the objective. Meanwhile, James against rationalism, he thought that experience contains feeling, not feeling produces experience. "Primitive", "pure" experience is only in sensed. Therefore only in an irrational condition can comprehend it. James thought that the world itself is an irrational world. If you want to know the world, you cannot use the rational understanding ability and rational knowledge methods, rational must be removed.The fourth chapter summed up the naturalistic, discussed the influence of scientific philosophy of James'post-modernism. The influence of evolution by Darwin, James thinks that the development of scientific theory is a passive process of experience in the judgment character test. In science, theory not only has the explanation function, but also has the function of the practice of reforming, which has more function of truly; applying the theory of the world with the reality of theoretic object in the practical is the meaning of theory. Scientific experience nature and pragmatism empiricism features are roughly the same. After the pragmatism expanded by James etc, the development of philosophy in western country was influenced by it.