The Cambridge companion to William James /
The Cambridge companion to William James /
edited by Ruth Anna Putnam.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1997.
- xii, 406 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Introduction / Ruth Anna Putnam --Pragmatism and introspective psychology / Gerald E. Myers--Consciousness as a pragmatist views it / Owen Flanagan --John Dewey's naturalization of William James / Richard M. Gale --James, Clifford, and the scientific conscience / David A. Hollinger--Religious faith, intellectual responsibility, and romance / Richard Rorty --The breathtaking intimacy of the material world / Bruce Wilshire--James, aboutness, and his British critics / T.L.S. Sprigge--Logical principles and philosophical attitudes / Christopher Hookway --James's theory of truth / Hilary Putnam --The James/Royce dispute and the development of Jarnests "solution" / James Conant--William James on religious experience / Richard R. Niebuhr --Interpreting the universe after a social analogy / David C. Lamberth --Moral philosophy and the development of morality / Graham H. Bird --Some of life's ideals / Ruth Anna Putnam --A shelter of the mind / Jessica R. Feldman--The influence of William James on American culture / Ross Posnock --Pragmatism, politics, and the corridor / Harvey J. Cormier --James and the Kantian tradition / Thomas Carlson.
James was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. These essays deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues of his time.
0521459060
James, William, 1842-1910
B945.J36 C36 1997 945.J21 / C36 1997 B
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Introduction / Ruth Anna Putnam --Pragmatism and introspective psychology / Gerald E. Myers--Consciousness as a pragmatist views it / Owen Flanagan --John Dewey's naturalization of William James / Richard M. Gale --James, Clifford, and the scientific conscience / David A. Hollinger--Religious faith, intellectual responsibility, and romance / Richard Rorty --The breathtaking intimacy of the material world / Bruce Wilshire--James, aboutness, and his British critics / T.L.S. Sprigge--Logical principles and philosophical attitudes / Christopher Hookway --James's theory of truth / Hilary Putnam --The James/Royce dispute and the development of Jarnests "solution" / James Conant--William James on religious experience / Richard R. Niebuhr --Interpreting the universe after a social analogy / David C. Lamberth --Moral philosophy and the development of morality / Graham H. Bird --Some of life's ideals / Ruth Anna Putnam --A shelter of the mind / Jessica R. Feldman--The influence of William James on American culture / Ross Posnock --Pragmatism, politics, and the corridor / Harvey J. Cormier --James and the Kantian tradition / Thomas Carlson.
James was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. These essays deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues of his time.
0521459060
James, William, 1842-1910
B945.J36 C36 1997 945.J21 / C36 1997 B