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If you continue to experience issues, contact us at 202-466-1032 or [email protected] A glance at the summer issue of Partisan Review: William James, an American public philosopher ...
The history of philosophy, he believes, can be seen as an interminable battle between the "tender-minded" and the "tough-minded" types of philosopher.
At the top of the list would be William James (1842-1910), who once described the history of philosophy as the record of a “certain clash of human temperaments” -- a long-standing conflict ...
Henry Jackman, William James on Moral Philosophy and its Regulative Ideals, William James Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2019), pp. 1-25 ...
William James (1842–1910) was the brother of the novelist Henry James. Along with CS Peirce, James would achieve his own recognition with the founding of the first homegrown American school of ...
FOR William James the ‘ facts ’ of chief importance in the universe were persons. He began his thinking from that end. Among those who have earned the name of philosopher there is none whose ...
The philosophy of pragmatism, which James insisted on laying on the doorstep of his good friend and associate Charles S. Peirce, was for James a philosophy of action.
William James was an intellectual force of nature in 19th century America. Trained as a medical doctor, he saw links between the life sciences, psychology and philosophy, and was a seminal thinker ...