Complete Works of William James

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It includes 25 essays, 44 letters to the editor commenting on sundry topics, and reviews of a wide range of works in English, French, German, and Italian. When William James died in he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. It includes working notes for lectures in more than 20 courses.

Because his teaching was closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.

The 29 articles, essays, and reviews in this volume, collected here for the first time, were published by William James over a long span of years, from twelve years prior to The Principles of Psychology to Some are theoretical; others examine specific psychological phenomena or report the results of experiments James had conducted. Pragmatism is the most famous single work of American philosophy.

Its sequel, The Meaning of Truth , is its imperative and inevitable companion. The definitive texts of both works by William James are here available for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by the distinguished contemporary philosopher A. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals.

Despite the modesty of its title, the publication of this book in was a significant event. Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between and They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems.

In Pragmatism , William James attacked the transcendental, rationalist tradition in philosophy and tried to clear the ground for the doctrine he called radical empiricism.

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The book caused an uproar. Determined to clarify the pragmatic conception of truth, James collected nine essays he had written on this subject before he wrote Pragmatism and six written later in response to criticisms of that volume by Bertrand Russell and others.

Both the acclaim and outcry that greeted Pragmatism: For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. He chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners would force him to be nontechnical and readable. Through analysis of the fundamental problems of Being, the relation of thoughts to things, novelty, causation, and the Infinite, the reader is introduced to the original philosophical synthesis that James called radical empiricism.

The Varieties of Religious Experience. The Varieties of Religious Experience , first delivered as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, was published in and quickly established itself as a classic. Notes, Appendixes, Apparatus, General Index. The Principles of Psychology appears now in a new, handsome edition with an authoritative text that corrects the hundreds of errors, some very serious, that have been perpetuated over the years.

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