Metaphysical Club

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a 2001 book by Louis Menand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metaphysical_Club:_A_Story_of_Ideas_in_America

The Metaphysical Club was a name attributed by the philosopher Charles S Peirce, in an unpublished paper over thirty years after its foundation, to a conversational philosophical club that Peirce, the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, amongst others, formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dissolved in December 1872. Other members of the club included Chauncey Wright, John Fiske, Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Nicholas St. John Green, and Joseph Bangs Warner.[1] Within the philosophical discussions of the original club, pragmatism is said by Peirce to have been born.[2] The name of the 1872 club was chosen "half-ironically, half-defiantly," according to Peirce, as the group rejected the radical foundationalist European metaphysics in favor of a moderate foundationalism, pursued critical thinking of a pragmatic and positivist nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metaphysical_Club