William James On Common Sense
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William James On Common Sense
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Author : Frederick Bauer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009
William James On Common Sense written by Frederick Bauer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
**"William James (1842-1910) was "a towering figure in the history of American thought--without doubt the foremost psychologist this country has produced." That was the opinion of Gordon Allport, a Harvard professor and one-time president of the American Psychological Association. However, few Americans living in this third millennium have ever heard of James, despite the fact that his profound insights into the human psyche are now more urgently needed than ever before. But before James' insights can once more become available, a barrier to their reception must be removed. What barrier? James' "productive paradoxes." That's what Allport charitably called them. 'They' were more than paradoxes, however. They were the pervasive contradictions in James' thought. To rescue his insights from entangling contradictions, the first step must be to draw attention to common sense, the foundation of all 'scientific' learning. James confessed that it was only in 1903, a few years before his death, that he realized for the first time "the perfect magnificence as a philosophical achievement" of our everyday, common-sense thinking. This book draws together the threads of James' ideas about such elements of common-sense as consciousness, language, meaning, learning, space, time, and thought itself.
William James On Morality
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Author : Frederick R. Bauer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-09
William James On Morality written by Frederick R. Bauer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Philosophy categories.
James yearned to weave science and religion into a popular philosophy useful for the everyday life of everyday people of faith. He saw that many were defenseless in an increasingly agnostic, even atheistic culture. "Thousands of innocent magazine readers lie paralyzed and terrified in the network of shallow negations which the leaders of opinion have thrown over their souls," he wrote in 1882. To which he added, "If I, . . . like the mouse in the fable, have gnawed a few of the strings of the sophistical net that has been binding down [the human heart's] lion strength, I shall be more than rewarded for my pains." Were he to return, he would still be unhappy with the leaders of opinion but also with the responses of those who seek refuge in fundamentalist reliance on religious scriptures or who claim that religion is independent of modern 'scientific' discoveries. Building on William James on Common Sense and William James on the Stream of Consciousness, this third and final volume will show how James in 2009 might weave ancient truths and modern discoveries into a philosophy that would even more completely reward him for his pains.
William James On The Stream Of Consciousness
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Author : Frederick Bauer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-05
William James On The Stream Of Consciousness written by Frederick Bauer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William James (1842-1910) was "a towering figure in the history of American thought"without doubt the foremost psychologist this country has produced." That was the opinion of Gordon Allport, a Harvard professor and one-time president of the American Psychological Association. However, few Americans living in this third millennium have ever heard of James, despite the fact that his profound insights into the human psyche are now more urgently needed than ever before. But before James' insights can once more become available, a barrier to their reception must be removed. What barrier? The pervasive contradictions in his writings. To rescue his insights from their entangling contradictions, the first step was to draw attention to common sense, the foundation of all 'scientific' learning. William James on Common Sense accomplished that. The next step is to use that common-sense philosophy and James' psychology to present a fully adequate Jamesian account of the stream of consciousness. This book, a sequel to William James on Common Sense, expands his radical-empiricist, two-part model of the stream of consciousness to the one that allows for all three of its components: sensed phenomena, memory-images, and partless thought.
America And The Political Philosophy Of Common Sense
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Author : Scott Philip Segrest
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2009-12-01
America And The Political Philosophy Of Common Sense written by Scott Philip Segrest and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Political Science categories.
From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today. In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense, Scott Segrest traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. The first two represent Scottish Common Sense and the third, Pragmatism, the schools that together dominated American higher thought for nearly two centuries. Educated Americans of the founding period warmly received Scottish Common Sense, Segrest writes, because it reflected so well what they already thought, and he uncovers the basic elements of American common sense in examining the thought of Witherspoon, who introduced that philosophy to them. With McCosh, he shows the furthest development and limits of the philosophy, and with it of American common sense in its Scottish realist phase. With James, he shows other dimensions of common sense that Americans had long embraced but that had never been examined philosophically. Clearly, Segrest’s work is much more than an intellectual history. It is a study of the American mind and of common sense itself—its essential character and its human significance, both moral and political. It was common sense, he affirms, that underlay the Declaration of Independence and the founders’ ideas of right and obligation that are still with us today. Segrest suggests that understanding this foundation and James’s refreshing of it could be the key to maintaining America’s vital moral core against a growing alienation from common sense across the Western world. Stressing the urgency of understanding and preserving common sense, Segrest’s work sheds new light on an undervalued aspect of American thought and experience, helping us to perceive the ramifications of commonsense philosophy for dignified living.
William James Pragmatism In Focus
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Author : Doris Olin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-24
William James Pragmatism In Focus written by Doris Olin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-24 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents William James's Pragmatism together with critical commentary and focuses on the theories of meaning and truth central to Pragmatism. It includes several articles three of which were roughly contemporaneous with the publication of Pragmatism.
The Pragmatic Philosophy Of William James
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Author : Ellen Kappy Suckiel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Pragmatic Philosophy Of William James written by Ellen Kappy Suckiel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Philosophy categories.
Pragmatism A New Name For Some Old Ways Of Thinking
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 1982-01-01
Pragmatism A New Name For Some Old Ways Of Thinking written by William James and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with Self-Help categories.
Pragmatism
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-11-01
Pragmatism written by William James and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
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Pragmatism And Other Writings
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Author : William James
language : en
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
Release Date : 2007-06-20
Pragmatism And Other Writings written by William James and has been published by Readhowyouwant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Expounding on principles of pragmatism and rationality, William James has given a free reign to his thoughts and ideas. He expounds on the behaviour and attitudes of those who are ruled by common sense in comparison to those who are governed by their beliefs. In this amazing work, he forces the readers to review their philosophies of life. Thought-provoking!
The Essence Of Ethical Pragmatism The Common Sense Philosophy
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Author : E. Dennis Brod
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-08-29
The Essence Of Ethical Pragmatism The Common Sense Philosophy written by E. Dennis Brod and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with Reference categories.
If you were choosing a physician to perform a life-saving task for yourself or a loved one, would you choose a lesser-qualified physician because the better-qualified one had social or political views inconsistent with your own? Wouldn't common sense tell you that regardless of your personal disagreements, the better-qualified physician would always be the best choice? If you think so, then you are already following one of the foundational teachings of ethical pragmatism (EP)-a common sense philosophy that stands as a simple guide for finding clear perspectives on how to achieve goals in the most beneficial way. The first part of The Essence of Ethical Pragmatism (known as EP) explains the philosophy, its development and its justifications. The second part of the book shows how the philosophy can be implemented to better our lives with a number of examples that involve issues challenging us today.