Essays in philosophy
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Essays in philosophy
(The works of William James / editors, Frederick H. Burkhardt, general editor, Fredson Bowers, textual editor, Ignas K. Skrupskelis, associate editor)
Harvard University Press, 1978
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between 1876 and 1910. They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems.
Several of the essays, like "The Sentiment of Rationality" and "The Knowing of Things Together," are of particular significance in the development of the views of James's later works. All of them, as John McDermott says in his Introduction, are in a style that is "engaging and personal...witty, acerbic, compassionate, and polemical." Whether he is writing an article for the Nation of a definition of "Experience" for Baldwin's Dictionary or "The Mad Absolute" for the Journal of Philosophy, James is always unmistakably himself, and always readable.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction by John J. McDermott Essays in Philosophy The Teaching of Philosophy in Our Colleges Remarks on Spencer's Definition of Mind as Correspondence Quelques Considerations sur la methode subjective The Sentiment of Rationality Mr. Bradley on Immediate Resemblance Immediate Resemblance The Knowing of Things Together Preface to Paulsen's Introduction to Philosophy "Pragmation": from Baldwin's dictionary "Experience": from Baldwin's Dictionary Herbett Spencer Dead The Chicago School Herbett Spencer The Pragmatic Method Preface to Hoffding's Problems of Philosophy G. Papini and The Pragmatist Movement in Italy The Mad Absolute Bradley or Bergson? A Suggestion about Mysticism A Great French Philosopher at Harvard A Pluralistic Mystic Notes A Notes on the Editorial Method The Text of Essays in Philosophy
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