It meant, as it meant to Newton, an attempt at a true cosmic scheme.48 These words of high praise, from a respected man of science who usually curbed his language, indicated he believed Myers had truly earned them.
William James
William James Richard Kamber, Daniel Kolak. DANIEL KOLAK, SERIES EDITOR William James: Essays and Lectures EDITED BY RICHARD KAMBER COLLEGE OF NEWJERSEY First published 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published 2016 by Title Page.
2 In 1858 at a small philosophical discussion group in St. Louis the thirtyyear-old Brokmeyer met twenty-three-year-old William Torrey Harris, a sharp-featured, spare, muscular young man who had just arrived in the city.
A blind man who builds a picture of a toy that he handles perceives the toy at some point , although he does not perceive it all at once . Likewise , we can — and constantly do — build a perception of a duration or time interval on the ...
Part of the “Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy,” this edition of the William James' Selected Essays is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful ...
The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of ...
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James.
William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician.
James himself was a Christian who thought that people benefited from the practice of any religion . later , teaching . Many scientists moved away from religion as a means of explaining the world , its origins , and existence itself .
Bissett. Pratt. After all the discussions of pragmatism that have appeared in this journal and elsewhere during the last three years it would seem that one ought no longer to have any doubt as to what the pragmatist means by truth .
At his best, James opened doors. When Mary Austin (later the well- known author of The Land of Little Rain) went to hear him lecture on relaxation in Oakland in 1898, she found a way to talk to him at some length afterward.
The book includes an extensive afterword by translator Thomas Lamarre, who illustrates how James's interventions are becoming increasingly central to the contemporary debates about materialist ontology, affect, and epistemology that strive ...
William James: The Essential Writings
In this important work he examines the trajectory of pluralism in the United States and England, the mutual influences of turn-of-the-century American and European philosophical traditions, and the relationship between pluralism and James's ...
This book is about William James's life-writing, writing for the sake of existence, that puts together a mix of literature, psychology, philosophy, and biography in the search for purpose and human flourishing, in place of formal religion.
die moderne Bewegung, die als Pragmatismus bekannt ist, größtenteils das Ergebnis desJamesschen Mißverständnisses von ... 10) – Vorlesungen über Pragmatismus (1903, CP, 5.14–17, 195–197, 206–212), die Abschnitte über die pragmatische ...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,3 (sehr gut), Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Philosophisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: William James: Der ...
In this important work he examines the trajectory of pluralism in the United States and England, the mutual influences of turn-of-the-century American and European philosophical traditions, and the relationship between pluralism and James's ...
William James: A Biography