... try to read Kant against himself, so to speak, and to show that it is possible to understand orientation in a quite non-modernist manner. This new understanding, then, can be related to the radically immanent and empiricist work of William James. This is what I propose in the third section...

... as a Jew in the dead of winter, Bergson died—a victim of Nazism—of pneumonia. Intellectualism Intuition William James Marcel Proust Zeno’s Paradox In 1925, Arthur James Balfour helped inaugurate the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by proclaiming that it was destined to contribute fully to the world’s...

...Mario J Rizzo; Malte Dold As we have said and by his own admission, Knight was influenced by the work of two philosopher-psychologists, Henri Bergson and William James. Knight considers his own writings first and foremost as a contribution to economics, but he admits that ‘[further] development...

... by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. 2016 Abstract This paper identifies extensive connections between Adam Smith’s and William James’s accounts of the psychological basis of intellectual, material and moral progress. These connections...

... the nature of emotion that revolved around William James' theory of emotion during the 1890s. However, this aspect of his work is little known because scholars who have analyzed Wundt's work focused on his late career. Furthermore, historical analysis interpreted Wundt's work within a philosophical framework...

... of habit, which is widely recognised as contributing to a theory of institutions, William James' discussion of choice and rationality, as well as self-interest, make significant contributions to areas of concern in modern economic theory. James' incisive and insightful analysis of these and related...

... ), William James ( Meyers, 1986 ; Simon, 1998 ) and John Dewey ( Westbrook, 1991 ; Rockefeller, 1991 ; Ryan, 1995 ) are receiving renewed biographical treatments. Even the hitherto mysterious origin of pragmatism in the discussions of a post-Civil War debating society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently...

... University, Marburg, Germany ABSTRACT In this paper it will be argued that Beauchamp and Childress’ principle-based approach to bioethics has strongly pragmatic features. Drawing on the writings of William James, I first develop an understanding of methodological pragmatism...

... in these last two works provided a template for the radical pluralism of William James’s Principles of Psychology (1890) and “How Can Two Minds Know One Thing?” (1905). Emerson Ellen Tucker Emerson Ralph Waldo Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Whicher Stephen E Cabot James Elliot North American...

... speculative and not systematically empirical, largely due to the strong emphasis of science on external phenomena. Thus, contemporary cognitive science focuses on the mechanics of mental phenomena instead of the dynamics of the mind. Wallace discusses the pioneering work of William James, suggesting...

... of comparative musical value preposterous. Why probe? Why decide? Relax, or enter alertly, into shuffle mode; there is no conflict, only beauty. These are the “healthy-minded” identified by William James, who by nature hold that … the world can be handled according to many systems of ideas, and is so handled...

... doxastic commitment Gendler T Kalanithi P probability subjective racial profiling degree of belief Lewis D principal pinciple scientific belief epistemic decision theory Schoenfeld M truth hope moral belief trust West C self-deception will to believe William James positive illusions...

...This chapter introduces and defends the democratic individualism in William James’s thought. Drawing on the work of George Kateb and others, it shows that what James calls the “democratic respect for the sacredness of individuality” can be understood in terms of four interrelated commitments: (1...

... mutually reinforcing variables—the institutional, the personal, and the cultural—each of which is best accentuated in one of a trio of pragmatists, John Dewey, William James, and Richard Rorty. If the three variables are mutually complicit in promoting inequality, an egalitarianism that takes...

... William James develops in his essay ‘The Will to Believe’. Justification of religious belief Jantzen G Scruton R Wolterstorff N Alston W Schellenberg J James W Edwards J Schopenhauer A Aquinas T Davis C F Hume D LePoidevin R Plantinga A Concepts Primal religious traditions Ward K Graham G...

...This chapter returns to some quotations which appear at the head of the book. These texts are taken from David Hume, Henry Vaughan, William James, and Thomas of Celano’s Life of St Francis, and they all concern the role of sensory experience in the spiritual life. This discussion aims to show how...

...This chapter recounts the twentieth-century shift in the study of religion from experiential theories of religion to interpretive ones. The key assumptions of the experiential vision, as found in the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher, William James, Rudolf Otto, and Mircea Eliade, are to think...

... electromyography EMG expression manipulation factor analysis boredom autonomic responses emotion William James Walter Cannon arousal feelings emotional response During an intense emotional episode, often the most striking bodily events are the changes in visceral responses. Especially during anger...

... Rationality of Emotion Stoics love Briggs Jean Levi Robert Aristotle Cartesian tradition Descartes emotional strategy emotions Feinberg William James psychology purposiveness Sartre Destroying the passions and cravings, merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and unpleasant...

... focused their research on the domain he designated for them: the objective material world. Thus, in accordance with the relation between attention and experienced reality suggested by William James, only objective, physical phenomena and their attributes have come to be regarded as real; while subjective...