罗素与他曾遇见过的,并就哲学问题进行过交流的好几位实用主义哲学家相互影响。这些相互影响同罗素与他的朋友和合作者如摩尔、怀特海、维特根斯坦等之间的相互影响性质不同。这是一种敌对的性质。事实上罗素与唯心主义者的相互影响也是如此。不同的地方只在于罗素本人曾经历新黑格尔主义这一阶段。至于就实用主义来说,罗素自始至终把它作为对手,实用主义者的主张对他来说是不相容的。尽管罗素自己思想发展过程中在这一点上没有改变过,但是,正如我们将看到的,他思想上的变化使他比他自己承认的更接近这些实用主义的观点。1896年,罗素在他第一次访问美国时结识了詹姆斯和皮尔斯。后来罗素又从W.维尔比(Welb Russell interacted with several other pragmatist philosophers whom he had met and exchanged philosophical questions. These interactions have different nature from the interplay between Russell and his friends and collaborators such as Moore, Whitehead, Wittgenstein and others. This is a hostile nature. In fact Russell and the idealist interaction as well. The only difference is that Russell himself went through this stage of neo-Hegelianism. As far as pragmatism is concerned, Russell has always regarded it as an opponent, and the pragmatists’ claims are incompatible with him. Although Russell has not changed at this point in his own thought development, as we shall see, his changes in thought bring him closer to those pragmatist perspectives than he himself admits. In 1896, Russell met James and Pierce on his first visit to the United States. Later, Russell again from W. Verbby (Welb