The Oxford Handbook of William James
Alexander Mugar Klein, "The Oxford Handbook of William James "
English | ISBN: 0199395691 | 2024 | 624 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0199395691 | 2024 | 624 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
William James was a giant of turn-of-the-century intellectual life. He helped found the young science of physiological psychology, produced a series of widely debated texts on religious experience and on the ethics of faith, co-founded the pragmatist movement in philosophy, and at the end of his life, developed a distinctive metaphysics concerning the relationship between mind and matter that is still influential today.
In philosophy, James is remembered for his pragmatism, an outlook that ties truth and meaning to practical results, and for his will to believe doctrine, which defends a right to believe even without evidence, in some cases. His landmark contributions to psychology include his theory that emotions are feelings of bodily changes following excitement–that "we feel sorry because we cry, are angry because we strike" and not vice versa. His
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