Yes, there really was a time when America had public philosophers, writes Cushing Strout, a professor emeritus of American studies at Cornell University. Three men in particular were especially ...

James’s “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life” sheds light not only on his views on ethics but also on his general approach to objectivity. Indeed, the paper is most interesting not for the ...

It makes no difference what pretensions the philosopher may parade as to the coersive nature of his arguments. Whatever principles he may reason from, and whatever logic he may follow, he is at bottom ...

William James (1842–1910) was the brother of the novelist Henry James. Along with CS Peirce, James would achieve his own recognition with the founding of the first homegrown American school of ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.44.3.0227 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.44.3.0227 Copy URL At one point in his career, James insisted that there ...

THE news of Professor William James’s death overwhelmed with deep sorrow the large circle of his friends and colleagues in every land, and the still larger circle of those who without knowing him had ...

“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.” – William James, philosopher, as quoted in “American Philosophy: A Love Story” As philosophers ...

This post is a review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag. In 2010, thirty-year-old John Kaag, a postdoctoral student in philosophy at Harvard, had just ...

Review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. By John Kaag. Princeton University Press. 210 pp. $ 22.95 In 2010, thirty-year-old John Kaag, a postdoctoral student in ...