Contents include an introduction by Bruce Kuklick, bibliography and textual note, and eight lectures on pragmatism by William James delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, NY, (Lecture 1: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, Lecture 2: What Pragmatism Means, Lecture 3: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, Lecture 4: The One and the Many, Lecture 5: Pragmatism and Common Sense, Lecture 6: Pragmatism"s Conception of Truth, Lecture 7: Pragmatism and Humanism, Lecture 8: Pragmatism and Religion).