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Present at the End?: Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown?
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 9-20
- Article
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The author recalls several central features of Peter Hare's deep admiration for William James's philosophical approach, above all, James's pragmatist defense of "natural realism." He draws upon a number of Peter's writings to exhibit this singular person's creative appropriation of key Jamesian insights and themes. At the center of this essay is a sketch of how Peter attempts to conceive of human knowing as a natural process and, moreover, how he suggests pluralism, naturalism, and realism might be seen as mutually supportive doctrines.