Abstract

Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller was the most prominent of first generation British pragmatists. He remains, however, a peripheral figure in the intellectual history of pragmatism. This unpublished lecture, the planned revisions for a course Schiller taught at the University of Southern California, ranges to cover a series of issues central to his philosophical outlook: the creation and naming of pragmatism; the importance of Protagoras to his particular stance on pragmatism; the necessity of Jamesian psychology; and, finally, the nature of pragmatism as method. These selections provide an indication of Schiller's relevance, then as now, to discussions of pragmatism.