| 单词 | William James |
| 例句 | Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Yet I can’t help feeling that I was saved, for a while, by William James. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z In a sworn declaration, Boal writes that he interviewed more than 50 military personnel who work in bomb disposal units and that Renner's character, named William James, is a composite of many of them. 'Hurt Locker' director seeks lawsuit's dismissal 2011-03-03T20:29:38Z “William James,” Sacks tells Weschler about the philosopher known as the father of American psychology, “referred incessantly to ‘the soul’ in his conversation but banished the word from his physiology. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The great Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James said it best. “The horror makes the thrill”: Why the New York Times’ “beautiful” war images of death and destruction won’t change many minds 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z James began these books in 1911, when was 68 and grieving the recent death of his brother, the philosopher William James. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z She named it after her grandmother Dorothea Draper and grandfather William James Witherspoon. What Reese Witherspoon Likes About the South 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a cliché for people unswayed by religion to still believe in William James, to allow him access to their souls because of the way he sneaks in through their brains. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z This fundamental question was one of many addressed by the 19th-century philosopher and psychologist William James, oldest brother of the novelist Henry. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z I find that as William James once wrote, alcohol elicits the “yes” function in man: It turns us on to our universe, it makes us more sociable. I don’t call it Drynuary, but I still stop drinking every year for a month. Here’s why. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Born William James Adams to a single mother in a poor community in east Los Angeles, he began his music career at high school and later formed the Black Eyed Peas. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z "William James is a fictional character that is a product of my imagination," Boal wrote in his declaration before listing 29 scenes portrayed in the film that Sarver didn't experience. 'Hurt Locker' director seeks lawsuit's dismissal 2011-03-03T20:29:38Z Konner begins with the psychologist William James’s classic “Varieties of Religious Experience,” declaring that he shares James’s interest in creating “a science of religion.” Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Gunn has described "Super" as an adaptation of William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience," complete with superhero costumes and comic violence, and he's not kidding about that nearly as much as you'd think. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z You don’t think of William James as being humorous. Suzanne Vega Is Tidying Her Home and Tending Her Soul (in Sensible Jackets) 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He crashed the Parliament and became one of its stars, earning the admiration of Henry and William James, who hung “on his utterances.” India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z William James in The Hurt Locker, who defuses bombs with a blithe disregard for his safety, because he knows he’s That Good. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Photograph: William James Warren/Science Faction/Corbis Years ago I went to a nightclub on the beautiful Greek island of Rhodes. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z Contra Burroughs, I see not so much a virus present as I do a kind of Americanitis, à la William James’ neurasthenia. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He brings up the work of the psychologist and philosopher William James, who “held that our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.” Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Named for her grandparents, Dorothea Draper and William James Witherspoon, the brand offers clothing and accessories as well as home items such as throws and mint-julep cups. Reese Witherspoon Launches a Southern-Inspired Lifestyle Brand 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He was a jobbing actor for years before Bigelow gave him a golden ticket as the unhinged Sergeant William James, a role for which he was duly Oscar-nominated. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z All of which reminded Ms. Mendelson of a William James joke. All Those Kitchen Gadgets, but a Sharp Knife Just Might Do 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Nor does she attempt to put Nietzsche in the context of his great fin de siècle contemporaries and admirers including William James, Freud, Gide and Shaw, among many others. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Philosopher William James, who published "Principles of Psychology" in 1890, wrote, "If you want a quality, act as if you already have it." How I started writing for TV: The case against "fake it til you make it" 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z William James, whose openness to mystery makes him one of the guiding lights of Pollan’s book, once wrote of the substantial aftermath of mystical experiences: “Dreams cannot stand this test.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z William James called this question “the darkest in all philosophy.” Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z And she includes numerous digressions of tangential relevance: Buddhism, William James on reason, the limitations of language used by the Amazonian Pirahã people. Review | Samantha Harvey’s ‘The Shapeless Unease’ delves into the quotidian torture of insomnia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The woman thinks to herself: Wisdom, said William James, Is learning what to overlook. Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z William James says data should be thought of not as givens but as gifts, this by way of maintaining an appropriate humility in the face of what we think we know. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z William James called this "the darkest question in all philosophy." Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z When, later, she read William James’s “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” she realized that during these quiet moments she had experienced the intuitive awareness that James called “prayerful consciousness.” Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z William James famously wrote that mystical experience — perhaps the closest analogue we have of a psychedelic trip — is “ineffable”: beyond the reach of language. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z William James, “The Varieties of Religious Experience” — for anyone curious about the emotional power of religious experience. Elaine Pagels: By the Book 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z William James, in his classic discussion of religious experience, cites the following as one of many reports: Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Kipling shaped the thought of William James, with whom he worked out the themes of “Captains Courageous.” Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z More than a century ago William James proposed a radically different approach to change. Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking 2012-06-30T21:40:52Z I adore William James and Henry James, but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z If there is a stream of consciousness, as William James suggested, the stream doesn’t flow continuously. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z At the center is Renner's character, Staff Sergeant William James, a reckless rebel. "Hurt Locker" star braves real Afghan minefield 2010-06-27T15:25:00Z “Emerson, Thoreau, and William James all made lasting contributions to modern life, and their personal triumphs over disaster and loss and defeat are further contributions,” Richardson wrote in the preface. Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “I adore William James and Henry James,” says the author Kathryn Schulz, whose latest book is the memoir “Lost & Found” — “but did I also read E. L. James back in 2011? You bet.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z It centers on three major American thinkers he previously wrote books about: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and William James. Posthumous book coming from historian Robert D Richardson 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The brand — named after Witherspoon’s grandparents Dorothea Draper and William James Witherspoon — specializes in classic and chic women’s clothing and shoes, and can be found at Nordstrom and Kohl’s. 20 female celebrities with lucrative businesses beyond Hollywood 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The idea goes back to antiquity—Plato took it seriously—and has had some prominent supporters over the years, including psychologist William James and philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell. Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Some of our most illustrious thinkers, such as the eminent psychologist William James, have fallen for it. How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The 19th-century philosopher William James proposed that the self could be split into two parts. How the Brain Creates Your Physical Sense of Self 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z William James, of Gwernllwyn Care Home in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, applied for a licence to serve alcohol until midnight, seven days a week. Carmarthenshire care home serves alcohol to let residents feel normal 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z For survivors, unfathomable loss creates what the psychologist William James called an “awful discontinuity of past and future.” In an Age of Constant Disaster, What Does It Mean to Rebuild? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z William James, Ward’s attorney, thanked the jury for choosing the lesser charge, The Sentinel-Record reported. Man guilty of killing Arkansas officer gets 2 life sentences 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z In 1906, psychologist William James proposed national service as a way to boost political engagement among young Americans. U.S. teacher-training program boosts voting among young adults 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Over 100 years ago, the American psychologist William James noted: "The transition from a state of perplexity to one of resolve is full of lively pleasure and relief." Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z At the same time, she enlists a dizzying, and sometimes distracting, number of people — not just all those researchers but historical figures: William James! Review | Her heart was broken — so she turned to science 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It very quickly became this cultural phenomenon to the point where William James described it as Americanitis — this characteristic disorder of being an American and living the supposedly fast-paced American life. "We live in a burnout culture": Author Jonathan Malesic on the death spiral of the American worker 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z So rare that when such experiences do come, they carry with them, as William James wrote, “an enormous sense of inner authority and illumination.” Saint Francis had a vision. Or was it just a dream? Doubt protects us from dogmatism, which can easily morph into fanaticism and what William James calls a “premature closing of our accounts with reality.” What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Psychologist William James, right, next to his brother, the famous novelist Henry James. Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z In The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James quotes philosopher Xenos Clark describing an epiphany induced by ether. What Is a Question? 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The two often dissected the work of American philosopher William James, discussing how the narrative surrounding something shapes the way we see it, how revising a story can change how it affects us. After getting his DNA results, he messaged a stranger: I think you might be my father 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z As William James says in The Varieties of Religious Experience, mystical experiences should “forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality.” Science Should Not Try to Absorb Religion and Other Ways of Knowing 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In 1879, William James Beal, a botanist at Michigan State, filled 20 such bottles and buried them in a row somewhere on campus. One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z William James draws attention to this paradox in “The Stream of Thought,” a section of The Principles of Psychology. Can Science Illuminate Our Inner Dark Matter? 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Mystical experiences, as defined by William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience, possess two seemingly contradictory properties. Quantum Mechanics, the Mind-Body Problem and Negative Theology 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Not long after, renowned American philosopher William James wrote in his essay "The Moral Equivalent of War" that Americans should redirect their combative impulses away from their fellow humans and onto "Nature." They know how to prevent megafires. Why won’t anybody listen? 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z To deploy these interactive processes requires nearly automatic decoding skills and purposeful attention that moves, as William James wrote, from “flight to perches” for thought. Screen-based online learning will change kids' brains. Are we ready for that? | Maryanne Wolf 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z A Dublin-based Scotsman, Scott draws on writings by English mystic Charles Williams and American philosopher William James, as well as his own archival material, some of it dating back as far as 1988. Review: Druids, Dennis Hopper and more on Waterboys’ latest 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z It started at the corner of Eighth Street and Commercial Avenue, near the spot where William James, a Black man, was lynched in 1909 before a crowd of thousands of people. Cairo march highlights past heartland civil rights activism 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z “Biography begins in the mysteries of temperament, lives in narrative, but aims beyond it, as the historian Jules Michelet understood, to resurrection,” Mr. Richardson wrote in “William James.” Robert D. Richardson, prizewinning biographer of American thinkers, dies at 86 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z His signature biographies — of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James — together trace the implications of our founding ideals for the growth of a distinctly American philosophy. Opinion | How America can shift to the right direction 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet readers lured by its subtitle, “How William James Can Save Your Life,” will soon find themselves wrestling with philosophy, psychology and religious studies, though not in scholars’ bone-dry prose. Review | Overcoming despair to discover the meaning of life 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Suddenly I am reminded of William James’s essay “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,” in which he writes about the difficulty of being present to another person’s life. Opinion | The Courage to Be Alone 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But it’s no accident that one of the United States’ great contributions to philosophy is William James’s theory of pragmatism. Opinion | Trump’s war on pragmatism 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The philosopher and psychologist William James suggested that fear is an interpretation of physiological responses to threat, instead of the other way around8. How stress can cause a fever 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Cummings himself quotes William James’s pronouncement: “When superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce … we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.” Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In Principles of Psychology William James, my favorite mind-scientist, asserted that all our imaginings, no matter how seemingly inspired or transcendent, stem from “sense impressions” stored in our memories. Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As defined by William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience, mystical experiences are breaches in your ordinary life, during which you encounter absolute reality--or, if you prefer, God. Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem? 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Considering this lack of leadership, what would a William James pragmatist do? Opinion | Trump’s war on pragmatism 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z In attempting to reconcile those headlines, I was reminded of the words of the American philosopher William James to H.G. Opinion | Time for Americans to see red and go green 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z “A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing,” he wrote, in a sentence so memorable it is often mistakenly attributed to psychologist William James. Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z And in the United States the hero is William James, the center of a veritable industry of scholars, none of whom quite put their finger on why he moved to Berlin in 1867. The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z That latter view harks back to how US psychologist William James ignored “the traditional antithesis between reality and appearance”, as Nature put it in 19158. Science must move with the times 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z William James estimated that “ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual.” Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z As afternoon turned to evening, Murphy ordered a bottle of red wine and expounded on William James, Maslow’s pyramid, and the state of the world. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He is the author of “William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic.” Review | The message of these ‘civic sermons’: Have faith in your fellow Americans 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The man was identified as William James Webb, 42. Local Digest: Three more members of UMMS board, including chairman, resign 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z From Radcliffe, on the advice of her teacher William James, she went to medical school at Johns Hopkins in preparation for a career in psychology. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z He served as president of the Organization of American Historians, cultivated a long beard that earned him comparisons to philosopher William James, and retired from full-time teaching in 2001. David Brion Davis, Pulitzer-winning historian who reshaped study of slavery, dies at 92 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z His student William James, on a naturalist’s expedition with him to Brazil, saw through his prejudices. How the South Won the Civil War 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z God, Truth, Reality, whatever you want to call it is ineffable, as William James put it. Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z “Occasionally these tellers ‘entertain’ parliament by deliberately standing in the wrong spot and only switching to the right place at the last minute,” said Reuters reporter William James. Reporting Brexit: Racing to break news in Britain's ancient parliament 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z At the turn of the twentieth century, the philosopher William James found himself in a strikingly similar predicament. Americans are alienated, and football won't fix that 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “True ideas are those we can assimilate, validate, corroborate and verify,” philosopher and psychologist William James said. In our new post-truth era, the way we view reality is more important than ever 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z A scientist from a generation before Einstein, William James, thought that maybe we can’t—maybe our brains are too small. Reading Into Albert Einstein’s God Letter 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z In the audience was philosopher William James, who had traveled from Harvard University to meet Freud. The Brain's Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Officers Matthew Jones and Vincent Adams shot William James Hughes, 43, on an apartment building's porch Aug. 5. Boy accused in Okla. school stabbing had no history of trouble, officials say 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Tuesday that 43-year-old William James Hughes died of multiple gunshot wounds early Sunday after officers responded to a 911 call of gunfire in an apartment building. State agency identifies man shot by police, officers 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z In a time of confused plutocracy, everyone wanted a variant of what William James later called “the moral equivalent of war.” What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Philosopher William James described it as a fundamental approach to all life, which preserves our sense of agency and possibility, as opposed to monistic philosophies of all stripes. Democrats have an ideology — government as a force for good. To win, they must embrace it 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z This is in contradiction to William James’ famous assertion that, after 30, personality is set like plaster. Do people change? You asked Google – here's the answer | Eleanor Morgan 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z William James drew attention to the weird nature of consciousness. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The psychologist William James, who coined the term “Truth with a capital T,” laments that capitalized words are used to create the illusion of objective truth, infusing arguments with an oracular quality that demands loyalty. Perspective | Trump’s bizarre understanding of Capitalization is surprisingly Strategic 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z District Judge Alia Moses read the sentence against William James Jonas III, who was also the city attorney, on Wednesday in federal court in U.S.-Mexico border community of Del Rio, Texas. Ex-South Texas city manager sentenced on corruption charges 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z There were few children his age, so as a young man Mr. Harvey immersed himself in books, devouring the works of Freud and William James. Larry Harvey, philosophical force behind Burning Man festival, dies at 70 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z He trusts his own experience — his version of what William James called “radical empiricism.” The 4.1.18 Issue 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z As long ago as 1890 the psychologist William James noted that our feelings of time “harmonize with different mental moods.” Opinion | Is Trump Warping Our Sense of Time? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Americans may be trapping the next William James, Herman Melville, or Bob Dylan in a cubicle: and for what? Fear over healthcare locks Americans in jobs – and throttles creativity | Jonathan R Goodman 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “Well before World War I, the philosopher William James, apprehensive of what lay ahead, said, ‘We must find the moral equivalent of war’ to give unity and direction to our society,” Professor Dowd wrote. Douglas Dowd, 97, Antiwar Activist and Critic of Capitalism, Is Dead 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z With its brightly coloured furniture, open doors and do-good William James motto, the Solidarity Club is testimony to the endurance of Greeks under duress. Greek debt crisis: ‘People can’t see any light at the end of any tunnel’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The Gaston Gazette reports that Belmont police arrested 37-year-old William James Wood of Fair Play, South Carolina, on Saturday for possessing a stolen vehicle and stolen license plates. Man arrested in North Carolina wanted in 2 other states 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z A federal court jury in Del Rio, Texas, returned its guilty verdicts Monday against former mayor Ricardo Lopez and former city manager and city attorney William James Jonas III. Ex-mayor, ex-city manager of South Texas town convicted 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Florida Highway Patrol says 49-year-old William James McKay was flying the aircraft from Key West to Okeechobee, with a final destination of Orlando. Small plane makes emergency landing on Florida highway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In 1890, in “The Principles of Psychology,” William James wrote, “We make search in our memory for a forgotten idea, just as we rummage our house for a lost object.” Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Sternberg offered his views in a lecture associated with receiving a William James Fellow Award from the APS for his lifetime contributions to psychology. Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z She finished her four-year enlistment and enrolled in William James College, which says it is the only U.S. psychology graduate school focused on training veterans as counselors. U.S. college teaches veterans to heal each others' mental wounds 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The original copper piece was cast by William James Scott, who had played for the club in the old amateur days, and it went up in 1909. Goodbye White Hart Lane: an iconic stadium remembered by those who knew it best 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z William James Hartwell insisted he operated a legitimate studio where amateurs could rent cameras, lights and props to create their own sex scenes with the help of a model. Pornography studio owner convicted of operating brothel 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z At the time, William James was still developing psychology as a science and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was defining our integrated nervous system. Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The “peculiar mixture of forgetting with our remembering,” wrote William James, one of the founders of modern psychology, “is the very keel on which our mental ship is built.” Total recall: the people who never forget 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z He signed up for the New York Army National Guard and went on to serve a tour in Afghanistan before enrolling at William James. U.S. college teaches veterans to heal each others' mental wounds 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z William James, brother of the more famous Henry, was a classic American intellectual, a brilliant New Englander and renowned pragmatist – a celebrity in his time who coined the phrase “stream of consciousness”. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 53 – The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902) 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z This hard truth harks back to William James, who concluded that such “introspective analysis” was like “trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.” The Voices in Our Heads 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z “I always go back to William James,” he said. Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? 2013-03-27T04:00:00Z Le Guin’s story begins with an ethical question posed by William James: If all could be made blissfully happy by the fact that one person was being kept in torment, would we accept that condition? The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Here’s that father of modern psychology again, William James… How Meditation Can Help Make Your Mind Happier 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The James family, who were originally Scots-Irish, like many of the first Americans, exerted a powerful influence on William James in the genesis of this text. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 53 – The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902) 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Ex-Mayor Ricardo Lopez and former city attorney and city manager William James Jonas await trial on bribery conspiracy and other counts. Ex-South Texas city council member admits taking bribe 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z "Young children do what they see," Timmonsville Mayor William James Jr was quoted as saying by the Florence News. Sagging trousers ban in South Carolina leads to 'race profile' fears - BBC News 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The ordinance was endorsed by Timmonsville Mayor Pro Tem William James Jr., who previously said the proposal was intended to instill self-respect and integrity within the small town in South Carolina. Sagging pants banned in Timmonsville, S.C.; mayor says fad ‘has gone on way too long’ 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z William James, one of the fathers of modern psych, once said this… How Meditation Can Help Make Your Mind Happier 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The same irreverence towards categories encouraged William James to adopt a high-low style that gives his writing a fresh and populist character that’s rather different from the mature style of his brother the novelist. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 53 – The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902) 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z They found, as William James wrote, a “pluralistic universe” and applied that insight to better understand the lives of others. Donald Trump’s pragmatism 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z American psychologist William James proposes a direct link between emotions and the body. Transit time : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s academic stuff, big tomes about William James or other weird topics. Jessa Crispin: 'We're not allowed to say the Paris Review is boring' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z I.am+ was founded by U.S. musician William James Adams Jr., better known by his stage name, will.i.am. Deutsche Telekom Teams Up With will.i.am on New Smartwatch 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The autobiographical project began, as Philip Horne explains in an afterword to the reissues, as a plan to collect William James’s letters, after his death, in 1910, with commentaries provided by his one-year-younger brother. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z In the early hours of May 8, Palo Alto police say William James McAdams stole a plane. Authorities say Palo Alto pilot stole plane, goes missing at sea 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z William James, the most important philosopher in American history, also wanted for nothing, but he never became a Christian. Religion formed liberal tradition: Somehow “godless” got hitched to “liberal.” It’s not true 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z William James said “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” The Art of Stillness 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z This observation by the founder of modern psychology, William James, is no less true today than when he said it over a century ago. The Science Of Self-Confidence (And Why We Lose It If We Don't Use It) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The authors determined the completeness of a mystical experience using two questionnaires, including the Pahnke-Richards Mystical Experience Questionnaire, which is based in part on William James’s writing in “The Varieties of Religious Experience.” The Trip Treatment 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z First, in 2007, when her son, William James White III, was shot and killed, she became a mother grieving the death of her only son. Missions trip helps grieving widow deal with pain 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z We expect this kind of grand philosophical pronouncement more from a William James than from an Ivan Pavlov. Ivan Pavlov Sought a Grand Theory of the Mind, Not Drooling Dogs 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z At its heart is a questioning of the notion that we divide into certain personality types that, as William James put it, are “set like plaster” at a comparatively early age. Why Leaders Are Not Necessarily The People You Think They Are 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z William James said that belief in free will comprises “the whole sting and excitement of voluntary life.” The Philosophical Implications of the Urge to Urinate 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The most prominent Harvard psychology professor then, William James, wrote essays on the structure of the morally significant life. How to become a real person through college 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Although its name brings to mind a uniformed national organization inspired by the William James idea of a non-military “moral equivalent of war”, there is, in fact, no entity called Americorps that one actually joins. The Americorps Anniversary: What the White House--and New York Times--Don't Get 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Simultaneously reading William James’ persuasive essay on Habit only doubled the guilt. Why Liberal Arts Colleges Are Uniquely Prepared To Identify Troubled Students 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z William James Coughlin was born May 29, 1922, in Washington, D.C., and moved with his family to Los Angeles at 16. William J. Coughlin, who led small North Carolina newspaper to a Pulitzer, dies at 91 More than a hundred years ago, William James noted: Roger Housden/column: In the spiritual supermarket 2014-03-28T20:00:22Z Speaking to Radio 4, William James said: "I think it is wrong for people to try and lock this away." Man 'will take food from bins again' 2014-01-30T11:26:36Z William James, the acting village executive officer, says even though he has written to the district authorities asking for information - the villagers have been told nothing. The challenges of boosting Tanzania's rice production 2013-12-23T23:48:03Z “We should understand, as William James did, that Americanism is a volatile mixture of hopeful good and curable bad,” he wrote. Michael Kammen, Historian of U.S. Psyche, Dies at 77 2013-12-07T04:30:30Z The philosopher and psychologist William James , observed in 1890 that “a tract of time empty of experiences seems long in passing, but in retrospect short.” Books: How We Perceive, and Misperceive, Time 2013-08-05T17:45:33Z “Everyone thinks he’s William James Adams Jr., but it’s not James and it’s not junior,” Wales told me as he opened his MacBook and corrected the entry. Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire 2013-06-27T09:00:01Z William James said that he was not stealing from skips but taking "unused food" Man 'will take food from bins again' 2014-01-30T11:26:36Z In 1884 the American philosopher and psychologist William James said an exciting fact would lead directly to a physiological response which was known to us as emotion. Using Brain Signals To Read Emotions 2013-06-25T16:46:00Z The great American philosophical pragmatist William James understood ethics. New York's Elite Stuyvesant High School Has A Cheating Problem. Here's How To Solve It 2012-09-29T09:27:49Z As William James once remarked, it's a good idea to run from the bear before you have a fully conscious experience of “bear.” Readers Respond to Feeling Free and More 2012-09-14T11:45:00.377Z William James, in the late 19th century, drew attention to the weird nature of consciousness. Was James Joyce the Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever? 2012-08-10T14:16:05.290Z And then of course, there’s William James, the other man frequently associated with that most eminent of titles, Father of Psychology. The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z Back in 1896, in a famous paper called “The Will to Believe,” philosopher William James argued that irrational faith was often necessary to give people the confidence they needed to succeed. Overconfidence Can (Sometimes) Be Good for You 2012-07-13T13:35:33Z His name is William James Adams Jr, but you may know him as Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas. Will.I.Am texting while he bears the Olympic torch through 'Taurton' – what an inspiration 2012-05-24T19:00:06Z The American psychologist, William James, has made whirling experiments with many deaf and dumb subjects, and in a large number of them found that susceptibility to giddiness is wanting. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z But let me first present to you the answer which one of America's best known psychologists, Prof. William James, of Harvard, gives to this most interesting question. Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z Is William James rightly the father of psychology? The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z Towards the end of his life he had become warmly attached to a certain William James, a retired Indian commodore, and his wife, who were the best and most wholesome of his friends. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Mr. Hutton had undergone similar bombardments, mostly of a literary or philosophic character—bombardments of Maeterlinck, of Mrs. Besant, of Bergson, of William James. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Thought is not free, wrote William James, when to it an affirmation is added; then it is but the affirmation of a preference. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z With these Dr William James has dealt in his Varieties of Religious Experience, showing that in them, as in "conversion," there is nothing distinctively Christian. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Somebody mentioned William James, and a captain quoted at length from an essay called "A Moral Equivalent for War." The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Professor William James himself could not better have portrayed a case of religious ecstasy growing out of genuine exaltation of thought than the poet has in David’s experience. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The Literary Remains of the late Henry James, with an introduction by William James, had just been published in America. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z But he missed its consoling function; religion, the poetry of the poor, never had for him the prime significance that it had for William James; a legend, vague, vast, and delicious. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Day after day I told him what the professors had told me; of life, of sex and its origins; of Schopenhauer and William James. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z De Gourmont is a wise man, who, like Socrates and William James, is not afraid to joke, and some of his perversities are uttered with his ironic tongue in his cheek. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z William James has remarked that self-esteem depends, not simply upon our success, but upon the ratio of our success to our pretensions, and can therefore be increased by diminishing our pretensions. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z To prevent confusion of names it should be mentioned that the "Alice" referred to at the end of this letter is H. J.'s sister-in-law, Mrs. William James. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Need we say that it recites the ancient saw about William James, the fictionist, and his brother Henry, the psychologist. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z So excessive are the evils of the present system that no less a man than Professor William James has advocated the abolition of the examinations. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The supreme service of William James to philosophy is the restoration of philosophy to the uses of life. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Professor William James is the author of an excellent essay entitled "A Moral Equivalent for War." The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The news had just arrived of the death of F. W. H. Myers at Rome, where William James was spending the winter. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z William James put the matter in a nutshell when he wrote that "the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature tastes mawkish and dish-watery to people who still keep a sense of life's more bitter flavours." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z William James and his wife and the youngest child were alone in the Chocorua cottage for a few days, picnicking by themselves without any servant. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z On his left hand are William James and other psychological students of the evidence of spooks. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Prof. William James, America's greatest psychologist, tells us that going through the motions appropriate to an emotion automatically causes that emotion to be felt. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z William James was again in Europe in 1902, delivering at Edinburgh the lectures that presently appeared as The Varieties of Religious Experience. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Warren Buffett isn't Mr. Miller's only intellectual hero; he also reveres philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James. The Rise and Fall of a Stock Picker 2011-11-18T14:29:40Z Yours ever, W. J. The next letter begins by acknowledging one which had alluded to the death of a Cambridge gentleman who had been run over in the street, almost under William James's eyes. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z If William James were alive he would be eighty years old; but he belongs to us, to the living present. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z In quoting some early letters of William James's in Notes of a Son and Brother, H.J. had not thought it necessary to reproduce them with absolutely literal fidelity. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z William James and his family were now in Europe for a year of Switzerland and Italy, and Henry joined them at Lausanne on his way home. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z How much of Broadway's optimism is—But here I am paraphrasing William James's Principles of Psychology, which the reader can just as well consult for himself in the latest revised edition of 1907. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z A List of the Published Writings of William James, with notes, and an index; by Ralph Barton Perry. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z This fact William James was quick to see when he said “on any given day there are energies slumbering within us which the incitements of that day do not call forth.” Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z Professor and Mrs. William James had been in California at this time of the great San Francisco earthquake and conflagration. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Mill and the late William James, by postulating a finite god, a good being who is doing his best but who is struggling with a refractory material. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z The changing position of William James is then followed through magazine articles and books appearing successively during a period of about thirty years. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z Barber, Catherine, marries William James I, 1, 4; her ancestry, 4 and n. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z But from so eminent a psychologist as William James, silence might well be construed as deterministic inability to reply to the position laid down. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Professor and Mrs. William James had planned to spend the summer in Europe again, and when they heard of his condition they hastened out to be with him as soon as possible. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Her death was felt by Henry and William James as the end of their youth. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z As has been so often said, William James was too sympathetic toward the doctrines of other men to maintain a consistent doctrine of his own. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z Books by William James The following chronological list includes books only, but it gives the essays and chapters contained in each. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z American psychologist William James was one of the first to appreciate that the things we own serve an important function as markers for self-identity. Passion for Possessions: Mine! 2011-08-22T04:15:15.820Z While William James was losing ground, Henry was still suffering greatly, and the prospect of being separated from his family by their return to America was unendurable to him. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z For the James family had, as was shown by their father's many reported phrases, by William James' charm as a lecturer, and by the social greatness of Robertson James, a genius for conversation. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z It was brought to light and to the world’s notice in 1898 by William James, who by his wonderful literary style immediately gave it the widest currency. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z At the date of the next letter William James, Jr., was studying painting in Paris. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The philosopher William James took as a motto for practical morality: "By their fruits shall ye know them, not by their roots." Inside the Bush-Obama administration 2011-08-18T14:40:00Z William James sank very rapidly as they made the voyage, and the end came when they reached his home in the New Hampshire mountains. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Hence William James's protest against what he calls the “block universe” of the classical tradition; hence Nietzsche's worship of force; hence the verbal bloodthirstiness of many quiet literary men. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z A “List of the Published Writings of William James” will be found in the Psychological Review for March 1911, v. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z A foremost figure in modern psychology is Professor William James, of Harvard, whose great text-book, the product of twelve years of labor, appeared in 1890. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z That is not the type of Charles Darwin in biology, of William James in psychology, of Horace Howard Furness in Shakespeare criticism, of Albert Michelson in physics. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z As he returns from the battle with sin in the trenches, he will find in the same battle at home William James' "moral equivalent for war." Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Ever since the seventeenth century, those whom William James described as the “tender-minded” have been engaged in a desperate struggle with the mechanical view of the course of nature which physical science seems to impose. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z McGilvary, E. B.—The ‘fringe’ of William James’s psychology as the basis of logic. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z William James described the self as that kernel of consciousness that persists throughout various experiences and sensations. The Neurobiology of Bliss Sacred and Profane 2011-07-12T16:45:00.233Z I wish William James might have seen it before he wrote his Varieties of Religions Experience; it would have given him a new chapter. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z But doesn't William James touch upon such a matter as this somewhere? Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z "Cannot sleep comfortably between the sheets of William James's pragmatic philosophy, dry as they are." From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z He partly rallied and was able to receive comfort from the presence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. William James, who hurried across the Atlantic to nurse him. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z What had been more or less negative criticism in Mach and Boutroux, became the basis of a new philosophy in the hands of William James and Bergson. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z William James has just succeeded in making philosophy popular, but Plato and Aristotle gave it to us before the birth of Christ. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z For example, William James said that putting on a happy face helped him cope with debilitating . A New Tool for Creative Thinking: Mind-Body Dissonance 2011-03-08T12:45:00.433Z I have to fall back on the philosopher and psychologist William James, who said to judge experiences by their fruits, and not their roots. "Skin cell gun" regenerates cells in days 2011-02-05T01:05:00Z In Whitman, as William James has shown, there is an arrant mysticism which his own Democratic Vistas exposed in cold light. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z William James.—James himself, like Mach, was led to philosophy by the road of scientific investigation. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z She firmly believes that old quack Bergson is a bigger man than her own unapproachable William James…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Telepathy in these first two aspects has been likewise accepted as a scientific fact by workers in psychical research like Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, William James, and by many others. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z These are, as William James put it, “habits of mind” that we cannot afford to lose. Letters: Attention Must Be Paid (3 Letters) 2010-12-21T00:48:10Z From Benjamin Franklin I gathered the importance of good habits, but William James gleefully told me to avoid all habits, even good ones. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z His theory of the origin of intellect is the same as that of William James. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Of course there was nothing of the artist in William James, as the artist is sometimes conceived in England, nothing of the æsthete, nothing affected or limp. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, “Americanitis,” in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life. Mind: ?Vital Exhaustion?? Just Don?t Call It ?Nervous Breakdown? 2010-05-31T21:25:00Z In 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau called the baby “a perfect idiot,” and in 1890 William James famously described a baby’s mental life as “one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” Magazine Preview: Moral Life of Babies 2010-05-05T13:01:00Z William James, appears to be fighting the war alone. Essay: How Not to Depict a War 2010-03-01T18:06:00Z William James holds that association is of “objects” not of “ideas,” is between “things thought of”—so far as the word stands for an effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The fresh imagination and vitality of William James led him to break through many a false convention. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z From the point of view of "logic," as William James might have said, such a version of psychological fact may seem essentially self-contradictory. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Objections urged by tradition, by recent individualism, and by William James 58 VI. The Sources Of Religious Insight The latter way would be called "journalistic," had not the late William James used it in his "Varieties of Religious Experience." Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism The man who has made philosophy popular to-day is William James. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. I never observed in William James any personal anxiety or enthusiasm for any of these dubious tenets. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z William James was such a man, and there are a few still among the philosophers. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This year it is Croce; last year it was Bergson; the year before that it was William James; the year before that it was Nietzsche. The Book of This and That In his search for an antidote to war, William James points out how utterly the ordinary pacifist ignores the stubborn instincts that impel men to battle. American World Policies In a memorable essay Professor William James proposed a "moral equivalent" for this discipline that he thought would afford a like toughening training. The American Country Girl Had William James, had the people about him, had modern philosophers anywhere, any notion of that? Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The mind is in this case both subject and object, or, as William James puts it, both “I” and “me.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The present volume is an attempt to carry out a plan which William James is known to have formed several years before his death. Essays in Radical Empiricism The outlook for peace is thus not cheering; "the war against war," to use William James's expression, "is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party." American World Policies Mr. William James tells us that we learn to swim in winter and to skate in summer. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation To all other people, even to ghosts, William James was the soul of courtesy; and he was civil to most theories as well, as to more or less interesting strangers that invaded him. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Professor William James, in 'Varieties of Religious Experience,' describes four marks by which states of mind may be recognized as mystical. The Hills and the Vale I once heard the great psychologist, and great writer, William James, make a remark that threw some light on his mode of writing. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life And, unfortunately, no less a thinker than William James starts from the same misguided assumption. The Philosophy of Spinoza The American psychologist, William James, has done good service to this highest department of critical inquiry in his well-known work on "Varieties of Religious Experience." God and the World A Survey of Thought The originality even of Emerson and of William James was of this incidental character; they found new approaches to old beliefs or new expedients in old dilemmas. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z In saying what I have concerning the probability of misconception, I have had specially in mind the attack made by the late Professor William James on what he called the "medical materialists." Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development William James devoted much thought to the problem of the mechanism of learning, habit, association, etc., and his conclusions are set forth in several passages in his Principles of Psychology, 1890, Vol. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Spinoza's dictum applies to what William James called the "psychologist's fallacy." The Philosophy of Spinoza It is recorded of William James Sidis, of Brookline, Massachusetts, that at six years of age he entered a grammar school and in six months had completed the work of seven grades. Elementary Theosophy William James enjoyed in his youth what are called advantages: he lived among cultivated people, travelled, had teachers of various nationalities. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Such considerations belong, I am aware, to the accepted commonplaces,—perhaps to what William James used to call "the unprofitable delineation of the obvious." The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures But his restlessness persisted, and after a while he put his manuscript aside, and took up a book which he had found in the bookcase: William James's Pragmatism: and began to read it. Changing Winds A Novel The fire company makes an appeal to the spirit of adventure and heroism common to all red-blooded young men and furnishes something of Professor William James' "moral equivalent of war." The Farmer and His Community Emerson and William James are no more difficult to us than Darwin and Spencer to Americans. Another Sheaf William James accordingly enjoyed a stimulating if slightly irregular education: he never acquired that reposeful mastery of particular authors and those safe ways of feeling and judging which are fostered in great schools and universities. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The classic instance of this kind is the case of the Rev. Ansel Bourne reported by William James in his Principles of Psychology. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Mr. William James, of West Bromwich, belonged to the active class of projectors. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson I turned over with another sigh, and recalled that William James has advised us that a deleterious thought may be exorcised by willing another that is sunny. Waiting for Daylight Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Leibnitz, Nietzsche, Hume, Bradley, William James had all been rejected and were piled on the floor, but he had hesitated longer over Bergson's Creative Evolution. The Wonder This picking up of genteel skirts on the part of his acquaintance prompted William James to roll up his sleeves—not for a knock-out blow, but for a thorough clinical demonstration. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z In 1890 he was induced by William James to submit to hypnotism in order to see whether in his trance state his "Brown" memories would come back. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It must not, however, be for a moment supposed that the scepticism of Montaigne is identical with the so-called "pragmatism" of William James or with the "instinct theories" of Bergson. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It requires a psychologist, like William James, or a philosopher, like Bergson, to explain what a joke is, and then most of us cannot understand the explanation. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study The late William James, as some readers may remember, placed musical pleasure between sentimental love and sea-sickness as phenomena unaccountable by any value for human survival, in fact masteries, if not paradoxes, of evolution. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics “Royce,” said William James of him, “has an indecent exposure of forehead.” Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Several writers, among them William James, have attempted to make a rough inventory of the special instinctive tendencies with which human beings are equipped at birth. Introduction to the Science of Sociology More than any one else, William James has insisted on this point in his theory of "fringes" of states of consciousness. Essay on the Creative Imagination William James, for example, says: "In certain persons, at least, the total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist, but mutually ignore each other." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science I am especially indebted to Professor William James for the inspiration and resources which I have received from his instruction and personal friendship. The Approach to Philosophy In regard to the first question, the philosophic pitch had been queered by the conflicting combinations of all thinkers from Corcorygus the Borborygmatic down to William James. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 This was on the 12th November, 1728, by adjournment, at the Speech House, before Maynard Colchester, Esq., and William James, Gent. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account William James calls it the "ordinary or mixed association." Essay on the Creative Imagination It was upon this plain fact that William James sought to vindicate the possibility of what he called, in his famous essay of that title, "a moral equivalent of war." Heroes in Peace The 6th William Penn Lecture, May 9, 1920 The important writings of the more independent movement are: William James: The Will to Believe. The Approach to Philosophy William James helped me to wash the bad taste of Mr. Wells's god out of my mouth. Confessions of a Book-Lover Lastly, any former orders in private hands, together with all writings relating to the Free-miners’ Court, were to be delivered to William James, Esq., to be kept in the said miners’ chest, at the Speech-house. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account On the contrary, Professor William James has demonstrated with scientific accuracy in his book called "Human Freedom," that this is not the case. The Life Radiant Such "hair trigger" action has been postulated by both William James and Bergson, and is certainly in line with modern speculations in this direction. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal He may be mistaken, or 'E. A.' may have misspoken himself—for, as William James infers, the spirits find themselves tremendously hampered in their attempts to manifest themselves. The Shadow World And this is "The Education of Henry Adams," and almost contemporaneously the "Letters of William James." Confessions of a Book-Lover In the words of William James: In one sense at least, the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism. Human Traits and their Social Significance In the play called Justice, Mr. Galsworthy attacked the professional mechanism of English law in much the same way as the late William James attacked professional philosophy. Personality in Literature William James, in a passage that is frequently quoted, calls attention also to the danger of acquiring a chronic emotionality. The Moral Economy In fact, our most pragmatic philosopher, William James, has gone so far as to declare that emotions are the after-echoes of muscular contractions. Preventable Diseases Frankly, since I discovered William James as a human being I have begun to read him for the same reason that I read Pepys—for pure enjoyment! Confessions of a Book-Lover So that, as William James pointed out, by twenty-five we are almost literally bundles of habits. Human Traits and their Social Significance Chaos, however, is not so much to be feared as those "little provisional fools' paradises of belief" exposed so brilliantly by William James. Personality in Literature Ethics with William James swallows up philosophy and in swallowing up philosophy the nature of Ethics is changed and becomes something different from the clear unqualified mandate of the human conscience. The Complex Vision Professor William James, Harvard's distinguished psychologist, has traced to torture the so-called "confessions" on which the evil principally throve. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees A reader like myself does not, perhaps, trouble himself sufficiently with the philosophy of William James as represented in these "Letters." Confessions of a Book-Lover "It is," writes William James, "an open question whether mystic states may not be superior points of view, windows through which the mind looks out on a more extensive and inclusive world." Human Traits and their Social Significance This is only, as Professor William James aptly calls it, "soft Determinism." Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive When in such a dilemma one turns to the vitalistic and pragmatic speculations of a Bergson or a William James there is an almost more hopeless revulsion. The Complex Vision He was born into the best traditions of New England culture, his father being a resident of Cambridge, and a forcible writer on philosophical subjects, and his brother, William James, a professor in Harvard University. Brief History of English and American Literature He was good enough to send me later the particulars of the event, supplied by Professor William James. Seen and Unseen William James gives as the outstanding feature of reasoning, "sagacity, or the perception of the essence." Human Traits and their Social Significance The genuineness of religion"—to quote Professor William James—"is thus indissolubly bound up with the question whether the prayerful consciousness be or be not deceitful. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive He would agree with William James, transposing "music prevents thinking" into "talking prevents silence." Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets It was written by a very wise and tender philosopher, William James, who was never betrayed by his own severe standard of truth and reality into despising the common dreams and aspirations of simpler men. Joyous Gard It is clear in William James's words: Bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, are these half-brutish prehistoric brothers. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told It is this which led William James to quote with approval the aphorism that one learns to skate in summer and swim in winter. Human Traits and their Social Significance William James, claimed as a supporter of religion, argues that our inner experience makes us cognizant of a spiritual world. The Necessity of Atheism One of the most illustrious philosphers which America has produced was Dr. William James, professor of psychology in Harvard University. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals So William James proposed not the abolition of war, but a moral equivalent for it. A Preface to Politics The late Professor William James, the great Harvard psychologist, testified to the value of such a habit, as did a number of other distinguished Harvard professors. How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" As William James once said, simply to live, breathe and move should be a delight. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science The first person of educated intelligence who had an opportunity to examine and study, although somewhat summarily, Mrs Piper's trance phenomena, was Professor William James of Harvard University. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research If any man was entitled by experience and study to speak with some authority concerning vivisection, it was William James of Harvard University. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals William James might also be cited for his defense of those beliefs that are beyond the realm of proof. A Preface to Politics The whole atmosphere of our literature, in William James' phrase, is "mawkish and dishwatery." A Book of Prefaces Professor William James, the professor of psychology at Harvard University, was fortunate enough some years ago to find a perfect medium who was not a professional and whose character was such as to preclude fraud. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Professor William James of Harvard has made experiments to elucidate this point. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research What Dr. William James called "the power of club influence to quell independence of mind" could hardly have been more significantly exercised, yet less than forty signers were willing to accede to such demand. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Mr. Wallas takes exactly the same position as William James did when he planned a "moral equivalent" for war. A Preface to Politics Broadly considered, William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" was perhaps the pioneer work. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Where can one find a stable-man in our country who reads Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe, or who ever heard of William James and Pragmatism? Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View On the other hand, Professor William James says that Phinuit does not understand his French. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research "The faith that truth exists" is the way that William James begins one of his sentences. The Last Harvest The religious investigations of William James were a study, not of ecclesiastical institutions or the history of creeds. A Preface to Politics William James Enters the Field For some years the Society was mainly occupied with hypnotism and thought transference, with occasional reports on "apparitions, haunted houses, premonitions, automatic writing, crystal vision and multiple personality." Modern Religious Cults and Movements William James was also in warm sympathy with Luther who, he thought, "in his immense, manly way . . . stretched the soul's imagination and saved theology from puerility." The Age of the Reformation A revival of The Heir at Law was accomplished in the New York season of 1890, with Joseph Jefferson in the character of Dr. Pangloss and William James Florence in that of Zekiel Homespun. Shadows of the Stage William James holds that brain-paths cannot be deepened; that memory is not strengthened in that way. Applied Psychology for Nurses I had come to Rye with a car to fetch William James and his daughter to my home at Sandgate. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Professor William James' experiment with Mrs. Piper carried the Society over into the field of trance mediumship. Modern Religious Cults and Movements He was hypnotised by Professor William James, and brought into his Browne condition, but could give practically no verifiable account of Browne's behaviour in that missing fortnight. Historical Mysteries Professor William James, in his Varieties of Religious Experience, declared that the only gods the men of the new generation would recognise would be gods of some use to them. The War and the Churches A comparison of the work and qualities of Henry and William James might be made a valuable contribution to criticism. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines William James had corresponded with our vast contemporary and he sorely wanted to see him. Gilbert Keith Chesterton When Mrs. Piper was later seen by William James, a French doctor had succeeded in obtaining almost exclusive control and his name was reported to be Phinuit. Modern Religious Cults and Movements William James said that one of the privileges of a philosopher was to contradict other philosophers. The Breath of Life Ritschl based his system on practical values in religion, and Professor William James has proclaimed the same doctrine in a still wider application in his Pragmatism. Among Famous Books Yet the normal practical masculine American, too, had a friend in William James. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Others, versed in the spirit of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, will find an even deeper meaning in it all. Anthropology If they were classified according to William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" they would be seen as mystical rather than rational, speculative rather than practical. Modern Religious Cults and Movements It amazed her one day to learn that he had read William James and understood his philosophy much better than she did. The Big-Town Round-Up "There is no idolatry," cried William James, "save in the Sacrament of the Altar." History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 It is a vision radically empirical and radically romantic; and as William James himself used to say, the visions and not the arguments of a philosopher are the interesting and influential things about him. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion He is alive to the value of much of the work of the late Professor William James and of Dr F.C.S. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy The shipwreck of education, says Dr. William James, is to be unable, after years of study, to recognize unticketed eminence. Americans and Others So great, at bottom, does their spiritual kinship seem to me to be, that I can hardly conceive Locke vividly without seeing him as a sort of William James of the seventeenth century. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays We are therefore justified in concluding that Kalidasa was, in matters of religion, what William James would call "healthy-minded," emphatically not a "sick soul." Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works The influence of democracy in promoting pragmatism is visible in almost every page of William James's writing. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Textbooks of the nature of William James's Principles of Psychology present a double aspect of the subject-matter as well as of its mode of treatment. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy William James has given us a great quantity of Varieties of Religious Experience, and he deals with all of them respectfully. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking On March twenty-second, 1755, Commodore William James, commander of the East India Company's marine force, set sail from Bombay in the Protector of forty-four guns, with the Swallow of sixteen guns, and two bomb vessels. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India He corrected the weakness, relates Professor William James, by forming the habit of attending carefully to names he had heard during the day and then repeating them to his wife every evening. The Art of Public Speaking "There shall be news," William James was fond of saying with rapture, quoting from the unpublished poem of an obscure friend, "there shall be news in heaven!" Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion As Kant is the noblest of the moralists, so I suppose William James and, still later, Henri Bergson and Croce are the chief protagonists of unrestrained feeling and naturalistic values in the world of thought. Preaching and Paganism So William James was led by instinct from the crowded highways to the dim border-lands of human experience. Humanly Speaking The greatest contribution of America to religious discussion in recent years is surely William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Another book, from which I have profited much is William James' Talks to Teachers on Psychology. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Thus William James became the friend and helper of those groping, nervous, half-educated, spiritually disinherited, passionately hungry individuals of which America is full. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Jane could juggle Plato, Bergson and William James, with one hand tied behind her. The Real Adventure Perhaps in no one have they been revealed with more distinctness than in William James. Humanly Speaking It is with this contention, in one of its newest and most far-reaching applications in the work of William James, that this history continues. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant I recommend students to read William James' Talks on Psychology; a very helpful book. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers This feeling William James embodied in that theory of thought and of truth which he called pragmatism. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion William James Conner, his wife, child, and four brothers came next. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. To listen to William James was to experience an illogical elation—and to feel justified in it. Humanly Speaking For parallels to this view in modern times see William James, Text Book of Psychology, especially pp. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 In his later writings Mr. Tyrrell objects to being classed with the American and English pragmatists—the school of Mr. William James. Outspoken Essays William James, rather too generously, attributed this vision to M. Bergson, and regarded him in consequence as a philosopher of the first rank, whose thought was to be one of the turning-points in history. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Perhaps nothing has done so much to reveal the hidden powers of mankind as that remarkable essay of Professor William James, "The Energies of Men." Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy However that may be, William James thought as an American as certainly as Plato thought as a Greek. Humanly Speaking Another professor, the professor and man William James, has somewhere said that for the generality of men God is the provider of immortality. Tragic Sense Of Life It is probably true, as William James says, that 'militarist writers without exception regard war as a biological or sociological necessity'; lawyers might say the same about litigation. Outspoken Essays With William James too this infusion of worldly insight and European sympathies was a potent influence, especially in his earlier days; but the chief source of his liberty was another. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion William James has pointed out that there is a "moral equivalent for war," and that the energy of this instinct may be used to reinforce other impulses and help overcome obstacles of all sorts. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy The two chief authors who have appealed directly to the readers of the mother country are William James and Sir Charles Lucas. The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 It is precisely this concept of substance that an unforewarned mind reduces to a use that is very far from that pragmatic application to which William James referred. Tragic Sense Of Life Modern philosophers, of whom William James, Bergson, and Eucken are conspicuous examples, have appreciated the futility of such a task, and have sought other means of solving the problem. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life For one thing, William James kept his mind and heart wide open to all that might seem, to polite minds, odd, personal, or visionary in religion and philosophy. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion William James's advice, "Square your shoulders, speak in a major key, smile, and turn a compliment," is good for most occasions, but sometimes even a little understanding of the cause is far more effective. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy William James, nearly simultaneously with Lange, pointed out that emotion cannot be separated from its physical concomitants and maintain its identity. The Nervous Housewife I followed the experiments of Lodge, William James, and others. The Dweller on the Threshold One of the theories of knowledge that springs from laying emphasis upon life and action is that of Pragmatism, of which the late Professor William James was one of the greatest exponents. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life William James is an advocate of theism; pragmatism adds one to the evidences of religion; that is excellent. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Mrs. William James's regular address we might reasonably infer. Walking-Stick Papers Much of this new philosophy is a kind of higher obscurantism; the man in the street applauds Bergson and William James because he dislikes science and logic, and values will, courage and sentiment. Cambridge Essays on Education No one after William James can say that philosophy cannot be made interesting to the ordinary reader. A Librarian's Open Shelf "But William James doesn't dress in flowing robes, and worship the sun, and live with a Hindu mystic." The Gloved Hand To take firm hold on life, according to Nietzsche, we should be imperious, poetical, atheistic; but according to William James we should be democratic, concrete, and credulous. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion "Oh, yes, of course—of course; Mrs. William James; of course—of course," Mr. James said. Walking-Stick Papers A notable example of conclusive refutation of an argument based on a false analogy is to be found in William James's Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. The Making of Arguments The Gods of St. Jerome, of Thomas Carlyle and of William James are different; but that is because these men had different types of minds. A Librarian's Open Shelf William James, himself an ardent pacificist, well observed that in the modern soldier there is a matter-of-factness far removed from the bluff and make-believe of modern life in general. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle "Here's what William James says about it: "'We have grown literally afraid to be poor. The "Goldfish" William James, the psychologist, has said that most men use only a very small percentage of their real abilities. Analyzing Character Professor William James, the well-known psychologist, mentions ten cases whose resemblances “suggest a natural type,” and we ask, is it a type of hysterical disease? The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Listen to William James: Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. A Librarian's Open Shelf Mr. William James, a master in the royal navy, three voyages, as mate of a slave-vessel. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II At any rate in these later days such a mood has been maintained by inquirers like William James and the Society for Psychical Research. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe William James Jones was born in Elkton, August 25, 1829, and received his education at the common school and Academy in that town. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland As Professor William James remarks, in his 'Principles of Psychology,' such solitary hallucinations of the sane and healthy, once in a life-time, are difficult to account for, and are by no means rare. The Making of Religion How else could we know exactly what Homer and St. Augustine and Descartes thought and what Tolstoi and Lord Kelvin and William James, we will say, are even now thinking? A Librarian's Open Shelf It came from William James a few months before his death, and will ever be an inspiration to me. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography William James: the message of a modern mind. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December Mr. William James's chapter on Habit in his Principles of Psychology would, for instance, if the language were somewhat simplified, come well within their range. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition But is there no other means? asked Professor William James, and his answer to the question was that distinguished psychologist's last service. Essays in Rebellion The selection of William James to deliver the Gifford lectures in Edinburgh was at once a tribute to him and a reward for the university that sponsored the undertaking. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature In my quest for criticism and advice, I fortunately decided to submit my manuscript to Professor William James of Harvard University, the most eminent of American psychologists and a masterful writer, who was then living. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography The derivation of the common title Hanlon's Razor is unknown; a similar epigram has been attributed to William James. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 William James figured there as well as "Weary Willie," and pragmatists alternated with pugilists in the long procession of its portraits. The Wisdom of Father Brown It is from one of your own people—William James; what you call a 'Hibbert Lecture' at Manchester College. The Centaur My position might have been described in the words used by William James in one of his Letters to indicate his own. The Conquest of Fear William James has shown pretty conclusively that the so-called normal or healthy-minded moral life is apt to be shallow. Understanding the Scriptures The first I knew of the peculiar Alderling situation was shortly after William James's "Will to Believe" came out. Questionable Shapes Of course I do not allude to such writers as Lord Howard Douglass or Admiral de la Gravière, but to men like William James and Léon Guérin, or even O. Troude. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans The teaching of Professor William James, of Harvard, showed how useless it was to get men to listen to appeals if they were not energized to act on them. Home Missions in Action "It is largely a question of intensity," to repeat what has just been quoted from William James, "but differences of intensity may make the whole centre of one's energy shift." The Conquest of Fear It will be remembered that William James in discussing the openness of minds to truth divided men into the "tough-minded" and the "tender-minded." Understanding the Scriptures Strictly speaking, it is better to say "poets" rather than "the poet," just as William James confesses that strictly speaking there is no such thing as "the Imagination," there are only imaginations. A Study of Poetry Their gods of thought, Bergson and William James, were tottering. Jean-Christophe Journey's End In 1890 William James published his two-volume work on Principles of Psychology, a book so original and lucid in treatment that it at once gave a new teaching organization to modern psychology. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization I mean that it is the one for which it is hardest for me to develop what William James calls "a feeling," an inner realisation. The Conquest of Fear A few days afterwards Prof. William James remarked in regard to this incident that the story was quite incredible. Cambridge Sketches William James's entire discussion of the value of the hemisphere "loop-line" as a reservoir of reminiscences is of peculiar suggestiveness to the student of poetry. A Study of Poetry We must pass, then, to consider the New Psychology of William James. Pragmatism Mr. William James, a master in the royal navy, three voyages, as mate of a slave-vessel. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) I had not only to seize it intellectually, but to get what William James calls the "feeling" of it, the apprehension of it in my subconsciousness. The Conquest of Fear William James, in his "Varieties of Religious Experience," established that pretty definitely. The Glands Regulating Personality There is a large amount of intensely interesting, though spiritually undigested, material for a minister in a book like William James's Varieties of Religious Experience. The Warriors Were O. Henry alive, he could find material for a hundred new yarns, and William James numerous pointers for another work on psychology, while De Quincey might multiply his dreams ad infinitum. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun I shall only say here that I do not believe that so able a man of science as William James meant all that he said to be taken quite literally. A Handbook of Ethical Theory In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas." Public Opinion It is this later work which has given rise to the common saying that William James wrote psychology like a novelist, and Henry James, novels like a psychologist. History of American Literature As William James has remarked, a word-sound, when taken by itself apart from its meaning, gives an impression of mere queerness. The Principles of Aesthetics At Jacksonville, also, Captain William James is succeeding finely in the culture of some of our Northern varieties, the Seth Boyden taking the lead. Success with Small Fruits William James enumerates four senses of the word. A Handbook of Ethical Theory At all events, his notion served to lift him over his difficulties and to get him out of his mangrove swamp—a way perhaps less impossible than the one recently pointed out by William James. Far Away and Long Ago An interesting recent one is Felix Adler's, in Essays Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James; see also the chapter of Dewey and Tufts, Ethics, above mentioned; Paulsen, System of Ethics, book II, chap. Problems of Conduct Nevertheless, William James hailed Bergson as an ally very enthusiastically. Bergson and His Philosophy Two of our greatest interpreters proclaimed it, Emerson and William James. An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea Such things, I think, tell on older people more than on younger ones, and at last I went to my room and kept there most of the time, reading William James's Varieties of Religious Experience. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors Dr. Malloy was from the university, an out-and-out materialist, a psychologist who made life interesting for those who agreed with William James. The Blind Spot William James, always called "Bill" James, was a native of Virginia. The Story of the Pony Express There are intuitions and intuitions, as every wise man knows, as William James once ruefully admitted after his adventures with nitrous oxide, or as the eaters of hashish will confess. Bergson and His Philosophy Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea He had meant to write a series of books, to popularize the new realism as Schopenhauer had popularized pessimism and William James pragmatism. Flappers and Philosophers Just as William James has written on varieties of religious experience, so I could write on the varieties of my moral and domestic experiences at that wonderful place. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One My best reading has been William James' Letters; and that which amused me most a new novel, entitled Potterism, by Rose Macauley, which cuts into the cant and humbug of the world right cruelly. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Over the ridge to the north lies the Sleepy Hollow cemetery where the poet rests, with the gravestones of Hawthorne and the Alcotts, Thoreau and William James close by. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters She convinced me before she got through, that she and William James are right—hypnotism and mind-cure are the same thing; no difference between them. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Their views, which are chiefly held in America, are in large measure derived from William James, and before going further it will be well to consider the revolutionary doctrine which he advocated. The Analysis of Mind At four I lighted up and went to reading, forgetting my irritated skin in Vernon Lee’s delightful screed against William James, and his “will to believe.” The Mutiny of the Elsinore I have been reading William James' Letters—and real literature they are—far better than all your novels. Letters of Franklin K. Lane She was the first woman to receive the degree of Litt.D. from Columbia University, and the first woman to be elected to the presidency of the American Psychological Association, succeeding William James in that office. The Story of Wellesley The followers of William James Still let the Lord exist, And call Him by imposing names, A venerable list. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets William James's view was first set forth in an essay called "Does 'consciousness' exist?" The Analysis of Mind William James saw in it a diffuse cosmic consciousness and the chance intrusion into our scientifically organized world of remnants and bestiges of the primordial chaos. The Unknown Guest Certainly if I could have you to walk with for these months, and more of William James to read, I could take a step or two forward. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Time passed; M. Bergson appeared 'and for his hour was lord of the ascendant;' I tardily tackled William James. And Even Now I had been reading William James on religious experiences and I was thinking very much of Conversion. Secret Places of the Heart William James's theory of introspection, which Dunlap next examines, does not assume a single observer. The Analysis of Mind —From the Letters of William James Motherhood, which is not only the oldest but the most important profession in the world, has received few of the benefits of civilization. The Pivot of Civilization I told you I would send Wells' history to you, and to it I have added one of the greatest of human documents, William James' Letters. Letters of Franklin K. Lane To reject because one cannot understand is the arrogance of the "clerico-academic" type of William James. The Foundations of Personality I first set it forth with some misgiving before the Convention held in Boston in 1904 and it is always a pleasure to recall the hearty assent given to it by Professor William James. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes On this subject we may again quote William James. The Analysis of Mind No one has expressed this truth so forcefully as the late Professor William James. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business It occurs to me that this singular trio might be selected—Emerson, Henry George, and William James. Letters of Franklin K. Lane A basic law of desire lies in an observation of Lotze, elaborated by William James. The Foundations of Personality Our constant consideration should be for the fact, emphasized by William James, that there is "no recall without a cue." The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 This is the view of William James, Professor Dewey, and the American realists. The Analysis of Mind I feel grateful to that admirable "psychologist who writes like a novelist," Mr. William James, for his brilliant defence of it. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things You remember my thought that probably Emerson, William James, and Henry George had been the greatest writing minds we had produced. Letters of Franklin K. Lane William James said that we laugh and are therefore happy; we weep and are therefore sad; the bodily changes are primary and the feeling secondary. The Foundations of Personality Modest-minded people, doubtful people, subtle people, and the like—the kind of people William James writes of as "tough-minded," go on beyond this methodical happiness, and are forever after critical of premises and terms. The New Machiavelli It has little to tell that is not already familiar to the reader of William James's "Varieties of Religious Experience." God the Invisible King I was rough-minded, to use the phrase of William James, primary and intuitive and illogical; she was tender-minded, logical, refined and secondary. The New Machiavelli |
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