In all my years of writing and lecturing about psychology, there is a phenomenon I’ve grown accustomed to: Whenever I come up with a "new" idea or theory, I eventually find that there is one ...

ABSTRACT William James's account of emotions is frequently categorised as a feeling theory of emotions. Consideration of James's views about sensations, however, reveals that this categorisation is ...

ABSTRACT This Presidential Address to the 2008 Annual Meeting of the William James Society pursues an overlooked avenue to understanding what James might have intended by his claim in Pragmatism to ...

FOR William James the ‘ facts ’ of chief importance in the universe were persons. He began his thinking from that end. Among those who have earned the name of philosopher there is none whose ...