I have often thought of the mind as an intellectual engine that burns mental fuel. I have never gone to the Amazon jungle without reading for pleasure and for research. Each new article and book I ...

Vol. 35, No. 1/2, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE RANGE OF PRAGMATISM AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY (January 2004), pp. 160-177 (18 pages) Why has James been relatively absent from the neopragmatist revival of the ...

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 ...

On a day when ‘everyone is Irish,’ it’s good to remember when not everyone wanted to be. Even some Irish. By John Kaag Mr. Kaag is a professor of philosophy and an author. In 1789, a young man of 18 ...

Conceived well before the coronavirus hijacked our lives, “Sick Souls, Healthy Minds” offers us a lifeline at this moment. Many of us, forced into a state of suspended animation, now have time to ...

Speaking at the World's Peace Congress, on October 7, 1904, William James delivered a speech that appeared two months later in The Atlantic. In it, he considered the psychological roots of war, and ...