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This Handbook provides a structured overview of William James’s intellectual work. James was a pioneer of the “new” physiological psychology of the late nineteenth century. He was also a founder of the pragmatist movement in philosophy and made influential contributions to metaphysics and to the study of religion as well. This Handbook’s chapters are organized either around major themes in James’s writing or around his conversations with interlocutors. Themes covered include mind, science, value, pragmatism, and metaphysics, while the interlocutors covered include figures active during James’s lifetime (like Dewey) along with historical figures (like Hume) and later figures (like Wittgenstein) whom James influenced. Students and scholars who are new to James will benefit from the accessible, organized presentation, while experts will benefit from the depth of focus in each chapter.
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William James has long been recognized as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary thinking. Yet there has never been a comprehensive exploration of the thought of this seminal philosopher and psychologist. In Experiencing William James, renowned scholar James Campbell provides the fuller and more complete analysis that James scholarship has long needed. Commentators typically address only pieces of James's thought or aspects of his vision, often in an attempt to make the task of understanding James seem easier than it is or else to dismiss him as a philosophically unprepared if well-meaning amateur. The isolated nature of these examinations, too often divorced from the original contexts, badly hinders and even distorts their conclusions. Focusing on James's own ideas rather than his critiques of others, and drawing from a wealth of scholarship that includes the completed editions of his writings and correspondence, Experiencing William James provides an invaluable, comprehensive view of James as he participates in and advances the pragmatic spirit that is at the core of American philosophy. Taking the whole of the man's thinking into account, this book offers the richest perspective so far on this great but not fully comprehended intellectual.
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