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William James

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526733
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book William James written by Robert D. Richardson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post

Feminist Interpretations of William James

Author : Erin C. Tarver
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076941
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of William James written by Erin C. Tarver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and shakers in the Jamesian universe—while women exist primarily to support their endeavors and serve their needs. How could the philosophy of William James, a man devoted to Victorian ideals, be used to support feminism? Feminist Interpretations of William James lays out the elements of James’s philosophy that are particularly problematic for feminism, offers a novel feminist approach to James’s ethical philosophy, and takes up epistemic contestations in and with James’s pragmatism. The results are surprising. In short, James’s philosophy can prove useful for feminist efforts to challenge sexism and male privilege, in spite of James himself. In this latest installment of the Re-Reading the Canon series, contributors appeal to William James’s controversial texts not simply as an exercise in feminist critique but in the service of feminism. Along with the editors, the contributors are Jeremy Carrette, Lorraine Code, Megan Craig, Susan Dieleman, Jacob L. Goodson, Maurice Hamington, Erin McKenna, José Medina, and Charlene Haddock Seigfried.

Young William James Thinking

Author : Paul J. Croce
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423650
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Young William James Thinking written by Paul J. Croce and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, Young William James Thinking reveals how James provided a humane vision well suited to our pluralist age.

The Writings of William James

Author : John J. McDermott
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307824799
Total Pages : 1388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Writings of William James written by John J. McDermott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of writings by the legendary philosopher, whose sweeping body of work influenced our ideas about psychology, religion, free will, and pragmatism. In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing the importance of radical empiricism and placing into perspective the doctrines of pragmatism and the will to believe. The critical periods of James's life are highlighted to illuminate the development of his philosophical and psychological thought. The anthology features representative selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Will to Believe, and The Variety of Religious Experience in addition to the complete Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe. The original 1907 edition of Pragmatism is included, as well as classic selections from all of James's other major works. Of particular significance for James scholarship is the supplemented version of Ralph Barton Perry's Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James.

William James on Psychical Research

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book William James on Psychical Research written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William James

Author : Krister Dylan Knapp
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631253
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book William James written by Krister Dylan Knapp and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.

The Cambridge Companion to William James

Author : Ruth Anna Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521459068
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to William James written by Ruth Anna Putnam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available.

Psychology

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486120953
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Psychology written by William James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic text examines habit, consciousness, self, discrimination, the sense of time, memory, perception, imagination, reasoning, instincts, volition, much more. This edition omits the outdated first nine chapters.

William and Henry James

Author : William James
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916941
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book William and Henry James written by William James and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.

The Dynamic Individualism of William James

Author : James O. Pawelski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479404
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamic Individualism of William James written by James O. Pawelski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores James’s concept of the individual in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and religion.

William James and a Science of Religions

Author : Wayne Proudfoot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231506945
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book William James and a Science of Religions written by Wayne Proudfoot and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "science of religion" is an important element in the interpretation of William James's work and in the methodology of the study of religion. An authority on pragmatism and the philosophy of religion, Wayne Proudfoot and a stellar group of contributors from a variety of disciplines including religion, philosophy, psychology, and history, bring innovative perspectives to James's work. Each contributor focuses on a specific theme in The Varieties of Religious Experience and suggests how James's treatment of that theme can fruitfully be brought to bear, sometimes with revisions or extensions, on current debate about religious experience.

William James

Author : Gerald Eugene Myers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089172
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book William James written by Gerald Eugene Myers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial book is the first comprehensive interpretive and critical study of one of America's foremost philosophers and psychologists. Gerald Myers traces James's life and career and then uses this fresh biographical information to illuminate his writings and ideas.

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216711
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Sick Souls, Healthy Minds written by John Kaag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James. In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled Is Life Worth Living? It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. THis is an introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology - and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous - can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the sick-souled, those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of healthy-mindedness an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James. Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, this may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read.

William James, Public Philosopher

Author : George Cotkin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063923
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book William James, Public Philosopher written by George Cotkin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians and their students."--Robert C. Bannister, American Historical Review.

The Essential William James

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616144395
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Essential William James written by William James and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-organized compilation covers the primary topics for which James is still closely studied: the nature of experience; the functions of the mind; the criteria for knowledge; the definition of truth; the ethical life; and the religious life.

William James at the Boundaries

Author : Francesca Bordogna
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226066525
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book William James at the Boundaries written by Francesca Bordogna and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Columbia University in 1906, William James gave a highly confrontational speech to the American Philosophical Association (APA). He ignored the technical philosophical questions the audience had gathered to discuss and instead addressed the topic of human energy. Tramping on the rules of academic decorum, James invoked the work of amateurs, read testimonials on the benefits of yoga and alcohol, and concluded by urging his listeners to take up this psychological and physiological problem. What was the goal of this unusual speech? Rather than an oddity, Francesca Bordogna asserts that the APA address was emblematic—it was just one of many gestures that James employed as he plowed through the barriers between academic, popular, and pseudoscience, as well as the newly emergent borders between the study of philosophy, psychology, and the “science of man.” Bordogna reveals that James’s trespassing of boundaries was an essential element of a broader intellectual and social project. By crisscrossing divides, she argues, James imagined a new social configuration of knowledge, a better society, and a new vision of the human self. As the academy moves toward an increasingly interdisciplinary future, William James at the Boundaries reintroduces readers to a seminal influence on the way knowledge is pursued.

Brasil No Olhar de William James

Author : William James
Publisher : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brasil No Olhar de William James written by William James and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1865-1866, James accompanied the director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology on a research expedition to Brazil. This critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of his diaries and letters includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University.