The Cambridge Companion to William JamesRuth Anna Putnam Cambridge University Press, 13 апр. 1997 г. - Всего страниц: 406 William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral philosophy and political controversies of his time. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of James. |
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Pragmatism and introspective psychology | 11 |
Consciousness as a pragmatist views it | 25 |
John Deweys naturalization of William James | 49 |
James Clifford and the scientific conscience | 69 |
Religious faith intellectual responsibility and romance | 84 |
The breathtaking intimacy of the material world William Jamess last thoughts | 103 |
James aboutness and his British critics | 125 |
Logical principles and philosophical attitudes Peirces response to Jamess pragmatism | 145 |
Interpreting the universe after a social analogy Intimacy panpsychism and a finite god in a pluralistic universe | 237 |
Moral philosophy and the development of morality | 260 |
Some of lifes ideals | 282 |
A shelter of the mind Henry William and the domestic scene | 300 |
The influence of William James on American culture | 322 |
Pragmatism politics and the corridor | 343 |
James and the Kantian tradition | 363 |
Bibliography | 385 |
Jamess theory of truth | 166 |
The JamesRoyce dispute and the development of Jamess solution | 186 |
William James on religious experience | 214 |
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Стр. 4 - To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. For such a philosophy, the relations that connect experiences must themselves be experienced relations, and any kind of relation experienced must be accounted as 'real' as anything else in the system.
Стр. 6 - To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve — what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare.