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and Other Writings
William James
Giles B. Gunn
ISBN: 9780140437355
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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James's essays seek to bring his readers into the processes and play of his own reflections. Ranging across the intellectual terrain from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics…
The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. "Pragmatism" grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with "The Meaning of Truth", "Psychology", "The Will to Believe", and "Talks to Teachers on Psychology".
| ISBN | 0140437355 | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN13 | 9780140437355
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 278 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Publication date | 31 Aug 2000 | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Writer of introduction | Giles Gunn | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Library of Congress | 99036952 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | DEWEY | 191 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction by Giles Gunn | | | | | | Suggestions for Further Reading | | | | | | A Note on the Texts | | | | | | Pragmatism (1907) | | 1 | | | | Preface | | 5 | | Lecture I | | The Present Dilemma in Philosophy | | 7 | | Lecture II | | What Pragmatism Means | | 24 | | Lecture III | | Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered | | 41 | | Lecture IV | | The One and the Many | | 58 | | Lecture V | | Pragmatism and Common Sense | | 74 | | Lecture VI | | Pragmatism's Conception of Truth | | 87 | | Lecture VII | | Pragmatism and Humanism | | 105 | | Lecture VIII | | Pragmatism and Religion | | 119 | | | | From the Meaning of Truth (1909) | | 133 | | | | Preface | | 135 | | | | The Tigers in India | | 142 | | | | Humanism and Truth | | 146 | | | | From Psychology: Briefer Course (1892) | | 169 | | | | The Stream of Consciousness | | 171 | | | | From the Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897) | | 191 | | | | Preface | | 193 | | | | The Will to Believe | | 198 | | | | Is Life Worth Living? | | 219 | | | | The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life | | 242 | | | | From Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (1899) | | 265 | | | | On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings | | 267 | | | | What Makes a Life Significant | | 286 | | | | Miscellaneous Essays | | 305 | | | More... | | |
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