This paper aims to show the fundamental accord in Charles Sanders Peirce’s and William James’s views on perception and experience. Both classical pragmatists discover the richness of experience and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears ...

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 ...