 Its direction was determined by The Metaphysical Club members Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and Chauncey Wright, as well as John Dewey and George Herbert Mead.The first use in print of the name "pragmatism" was in 1898 by James, who credited Peirce with coining the term during the early 1870s.James regarded Peirce's "Illustrations of the Logic of Science" series (including "" (1877), and especially "" (1878)) as the foundation of pragmatism.