On James

Name: On James
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ISBN: 9780534583972

ISBN-10: 0534583970

ISBN-13: 9780534583972

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert Talisse, Micah Hester

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ON JAMES, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 85
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Philosophy As Vision


Citations and Abbreviations


Acknowledgments



Lives in Transition: Experiencing James


William of Albany and the "Prodigal" Son


Henry's "Vastation"


A Battle for the Soul


The First Vocational Turn: Art and Its Foibles


The Second Vocational Turn: Science, Illness


Medicine and Breakdown


The Metaphysical Club, a Budding Career, and Love


Professional Philosophy


Psychic Research, the Principles, and Publication


Introducing 'Pragmatism' and the Gifford Lectures


Working Hard, Then Wearing Out



Taking Philosophy Personally: Psychology, Radical Empiricism, and a Return to Life


The Philosophy of James's Psychology


James's Radical Turn


Committing to Experience


A World Purely of Experience


Returning to Life



Philosophy in Action: William James and Pragmatism


The Origins of Pragmatism


James's Pragmatism


The Career of Pragmatism



Pluralism and the Moral Life


Moral Experience


Determinism, Possibility, and Pluralism


The Moral Life


Meliorism



Religious Commitment to a Moral Universe: James and "The Will to Believe"


Preliminaries


Against Evidentialism


Faith and Risk


The Case for Religious Belief


Selected Works for Further Reading