| The culmination of William James' interest in the psychology of religion, The Varieties of Religious Experience approached the study of religious phenomena in a new way -- through pragmatism and experimental psychology. The most important effect of the publication of the Varieties was to shift the emphasis in this field of study from the dogmas and external forms of religion to the unique mental states associated with it. Explaining the book's intentions in a letter to a friend, James stated:"Th....[more] |
| This title is by William James who was a pioneering American psychologist and philospher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. |
| The Meaning of Truth is one of William James' most important books. It is a necessary read for anyone looking to understand the nature of truth. Does it exist independently of man or does man make truth what it is? Here you will find answers to this and many other questions on the nature of truth. William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would ....[more] |
| Volume 2 of the famous long course, complete and unabridged. Covers stream of thought, time perception, memory, and experimental methods. Total in set: 94 figures. |
1973
| This title is by William James who was a pioneering American psychologist and philospher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. |
1996
| A story of class struggle, sometimes violent, in the North West of England |
| William James believed that events could not be catalogued simply as a series of facts, but had to be considered through the lens of experience. Thus each person affects and modifies their own reality based on their own unique experiences and points of view. Ultimately you can quantify facts, but only if you understand how the person looking at these facts will affect and change them. |
| Here, in one volume, are the collected essays of influential American philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910), whose justifications of religious faith and explorations of questions of morality made him one of the most popular thinkers of the 19th century. In this volume, first published in book form in 1897, James ponders such conundrums as... . Is life worth living? . The sentiment of rationality . The dilemma of determinism . The moral philosopher and the moral life . Great men and their environ....[more] |
1982
| This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten lectures each for which I thus became responsible, it seemed to me that the first course might well be a descriptive one on "Man's Religious Appetites," and the second a metaphysical one on "Their Satisfaction through Philosophy." But the unexpected growth of the psychological matter a....[more] |
| William James (1842 ¿ 1910) was an American psychologist and philosopher. Topics of his books included psychology, religious psychology, educational psychology, mysticism, and pragmatism. James played a major role is the transition from 19th century European philosophy to American philosophy. James wrote "True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse" but "all true....[more] |
1977
| Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
1920
| 1920. This book contains volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. Whether William James was compressing his correspondence into brief messages, or allowing it to expand into copious letters, he could not write a page that was not free, animated, and characteristic. Many of his correspondents preserved his letters, and examination of them soon showed that it would be possible to make a selection which should not only contain certain letters which clearly deserved to be published because of their rea....[more] |
2005
| 1901. Contents: Talks to Teachers-Psychology and the Teaching Art; The Stream of Consciousness; The Child as a Behaving Organism; Education and Behavior; The Necessity of Reactions; Native and Acquired Reactions; What the Native Reactions Are; The Laws of Habit; The Association of Ideas; Interest; Attention; Memory; The Acquisition of Ideas; Apperception; The Will. Talks to Students: The Gospel of Relaxation; On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings; and What Makes a Life Significant. |
1996
| Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is a book by American psychologist and philosopher William James that focuses on his belief in pragmatism, which is considred to be the ability to forsee practical consequences or real effects as vital components of meaning as well as truth. Pragmatism is a key work for those studying the ideas related the pragmatic movement as well as those who are interested in the writings of William James. |
1920
| William James (1842 -1910), famous American psychologist and philosopher, was one of the strongest proponents of the school of Functionalism in psychology, and Pragmatism in philosophy. William studied medicine, physiology and biology before recieving a professional medical degree from Harvard university, where he spent his entire academic career. With his monumental Principles of Psychology (1890) James gained widespread recognition. |
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