Author: Stanley Jaki

  • Pragmatism Then and Now

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    The philosophy called pragmatism did not begin in 1907 when William James published his book Pragmatism. By then the word “pragmatism” had been around for thirty years, taking on a wide variety of meanings. To Charles Pierce, who originated the philosophy of pragmatism in 1878, the word seemed to have subsequently taken on a meaning…

  • The Mind and Its Now

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    Augustine’s phrase in his Confessions, “quaestio mihi factus sum,” which is the motto of this conference, may strike one as something profoundly existential and perplexing about Augustine himself. The context of the phrase indicates nothing of that sort. There Augustine wonders whether it is sinful to enjoy the singing of psalms, because the charm of…