William James

She recalled William James's observation that facts should be regarded as gifts, because they afford us invaluable glimpses of a totality we cannot see.

A dead end on the God debate 2010

In commenting on an excellent post on dream skepticism at Philosophy, etc., I linked to the following classic discussion of Hegel by William James, which is so good and funny it deserves a link here as well:

Perfect Delirium of Theoretic Rapture 2005

In commenting on an excellent post on dream skepticism at Philosophy, etc., I linked to the following classic discussion of Hegel by William James, which is so good and funny it deserves a link here as well:

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

In 1927 he published one of the classic papers on emotion, an attack on the theory of William James, which is a precursor of Damasio's approach.

Minding the Brain Hacking, Ian 2004

Q: A number of eminent physicists, including Wolfgang Pauli, David Bohm, and Roger Penrose, as well as psychologists such as William James and Carl Jung have proposed that the world of mind and matter emerges from another dimension of reality that exists prior to this distinction.

Interview with B. Alan Wallace, Author of Hidden Dimensions William Harryman 2009

He was critical of other philosophers, such as William James (in connection with the thesis that an idea never occurs twice in consciousness, as stated in James 1890, especially Chapter XII), for failing to distinguish between the object immanent to an act of consciousness and the real object allegedly external to consciousness (Marty 1916a, 139 ff.).

Anton Marty Rollinger, Robin 2008

"We," said William James, meaning the Pragmatists, or the Humanists, "turn to the great unpent and unstayed wilderness of truth as we feel it to be constituted, with as good a conscience as rationalists are moved by when they turn from our wilderness into their neater and cleaner intellectual abodes."

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

The great difference between ancient and modern methods of investigating the human mind will be best seen by comparing Aristotle's "De Anima" and any modern treatise such as William James '"Principles of Psychology."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

a B.A. and then for a M.A. in clinical psychology, I was fascinated to encounter new perspectives on the subjects I had studied in Paris in the works of thinkers such as William James, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan,

At The Juncture Of Theory And Practice: Remarks On Receiving The Henry Knowles Beecher Award 1996

Bud tells Jay that he reads daily because it is "intellectually stimulating," mentioning among other books and authors the Bible, William James and Vance Packard, who at the time was viewed as a radical due to works like his anti-advertising exposé "The Hidden Persuaders."

A Coach's Notes On the Everyday Gregg Easterbrook 2012