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Mind and the World Order

A Long Affair with C.I. Lewis’s *Mind and the World-Order* (1929)

Classic Review by Bruce Kuklick on a Long Affair with C.I. Lewis’s Mind and the World-Order (1929) I first read C. I. Lewis’s Mind and the World-Order as a philosophy major in 1962. I read it in two classes. As a self-proclaimed pragmatist, I regarded the book and Lewis’s reputation as a logician as the best defense of “my” position. When, years later, I began writing about the history of pragmatism, he became my hero. I perused the book again and again, and taught it to graduate students through the 1970s. It led me to other thinkers, before and after Read more