SOURCE: "Peirce, Mead, and Pragmatism," in The Philosophical Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 278, March, 1938, pp. 109-27.

In the following essay, Morris traces the progression of pragmatism by comparing the early metaphysical idealism of Charles Pierce to Mead's later empirical naturalist approach.

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In recent years we have had spread before us the results of the intellectual labors of Charles S. Peirce and George H. Mead. In the same period John Dewey has rounded out the implications of his views for esthetics, religion, and political theory, and has given us a glimpse of the reformulation and systematization of his logical doctrine. William James' mode of thought has been kept before us by Ferdinand Schiller's collection of his own later cosmological essays, and by the full length portrait of James' life and thought painted in words by Ralph Barton Perry. C. I. Lewis has devoted himself to the theory of knowledge...