“Introduction to William James” in “INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM JAMES”
Abbott, Francis E., 47
Absolute, the, 72, 73, 74, 166, 170
Absolutism, 70, 74, 75, 79, 81.
See also Monism. Action, 15, 19, 24, 42, 52, 67, 141, 146, 162, 165, 183
Adams, George P., 195
Agassiz, Louis, 14, 187
Agnosticism, 40-41
Allen, Gay Wilson, 191
Ambassadors, The (Henry James, Jr.), 12
Anti-intellectualism, 50, 78
Aristotle, 165
Attention, 31, 110, 111
Balfour, 125
Ballou, Robert O., 190
Behaviorism, 25, 34
Belief, 41, 53, 54, 118-24 Passim, 136, 156. See also Over-belief and The Will to Believe.
Bergson, 25, 76, 78, 79, 80, 85, 191
Berkeley, 60, 62, 105, 165
Bixler, Julius, 77, 191, 198
Blau, Theodore, 191
Block-universe, 181
Blondel, Maurice, 46, 183
Blood, B. P., 76
Bostonians, The (Henry James, Jr.), 11
Boutroux, Emile, 191
Bovet, 16
Bradley, F. H., 71, 75
Brennan, Bernard P., 191
Carlyle, 8
Change (Flux), 28, 29, 67, 79, 92-97, 174
Christ, 152
Christianity, 125, 130
Clifford, W. K., 124, 126, 134, 135, 137, 159
Clough, 123
Collected Papers (C. S. Peirce), 47, 196
Columbia University, 46
Concept (Idea), 31, 65-68 pas-
Csim, 96, 101, 177, 178
Conduct, 50, 51, 163. See Practice.
Consciousness, 26-27, 28, 77, 79, 81, 131; as selective, 28, 30-31, 110, 111, 112, 113; compounding of, 177; continuity in, 28, 29, 90, 96-103; existence of, 33, 63-64; finite, 44; fringe in, 30, 103-106, 107; in change, 92-96; objects of, 28, 33, 64, 90; personal, 28-29, 90-92; six theses on, 116-17; span of, 176; survival of, 43-45. See also Mind, Thought, and the Stream of Consciousness.
Continuity, 28, 29, 79, 80, 90, 96-103
Cornesse, Marie, 191
Darwin, 4, 23
Davidson, Thomas, 76
Descartes, 21, 48, 83, 131
Determinism, 18, 19, 75
Dewey, John, 3, 25, 46, 47, 84, 191, 193, 195
Diary of Alice James, The, 10, 192, 193
Dilemma of determinism, 18-19
“Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist?” (William James), 33, 57, 63-64
Dualism, 33, 64, 117
Edel, Leon, 192, 193
Emerson, 5, 8, 139
Emotions, James-Lange theory of, 25-26
Empiricism, 25, 27, 49, 50, 58, 129, 130, 133, 147, 165, 180-81. See also Radical empiricism.
Essays in Radical Empiricism (William James), 57, 58, 63, 66, 189, 195, 197; selections from, 116-17.
Ethics, 80, 114. See also Moralitv and Moral questions.
Evil, 18, 39, 75, 76
Evolution, 4, 16, 23, 24, 51
Evolutionary naturalism, 17
Existentialism, 45, 86
Experience, 7, 36, 37, 41, 51, 54, 64-67 passim, 76, 89, 112, 113, 116, 117, 131, 173; and radical empiricism, 56-63 passim, 84; continuity of, 174-75, 180, 181; flux of, 79, 80; pulses of, 174, 176. See also Religious experience.
Fact, 89, 165, 168, 172. See also Reality.
Faith, 122, 125, 128, 133, 140, 141, 145, 158. See also Belief.
Faith ladder, 180, 182
Fechner, Gustav, 22, 76-78 passim
Fiske, John, 5, 47
Flournoy, Théodore, 190, 191
Fourier, Charles, 9
Freedom, 17, 18, 19, 85, 147, 155
Free will, 15, 19, 124
Freud, 43
Fringe, 103-106, 107, 108, 175
Functionalism, 24, 34
Galileo, 23
Galton, 105
God, 17-19 passim, 37-46 passim, 51, 81, 85, 121, 122, 131, 132, 154, 156, 157, 159, 166, 170; and the Absolute, 72, 73, 75
Goethe, 95
Grattan, C. Hartley, 192, 193
Green, T. H., 71
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 190
Hartshorne, Charles, 196
Harvard, 14, 16, 22, 47, 69, 71, 72, 182, 187
Hébert, Marcel, 191
Hegel, 21, 83
Helmholtz, 22, 93
Hinton, Charles H., 131
Hodgson, Shadworth, 60, 165, 175
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 48
Holt, Edwin B., 191
Holt, Henry, 194 “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” (C. S. Peirce), 46, 48, 162
Howison, 163
Human Immortality (William James), 43, 77, 189
Humanism, 55, 56, 76
Hume, 27, 60, 62, 101, 105, 121, 165
Hunt, William H., 14, 187
Husserl, 25
Huxley, 105, 123, 126
Hypothesis, 118-20, 125, 130, 138, 142-44 passim, 151,153, 155, 157, 183
Idealism, 17, 76, 139, 154; absolute, 70-73 passim
Intellectualism, 40, 101, 145, 172, 177-79 passim
Introspection, 25, 27, 28, 100
James, Alice, 9-10, 13, 192, 193
James, Garth Wilkinson, 9
James, Henry, Jr., 9, 10-12, 71, 190, 192
James, Henry, Sr., 8-9, 15, 35, 36, 189
James, Henry (Williams son), 190, 193-95 passim
James, Robertson, 9
James, William (of Albany), 7, 8
James, William, as an American philosopher, 3; as a French philosopher, 16-17; as painter, 13; as popularizer of pragmatism, 6; as popular lecturer, 39; as scientist, 15; at Harvard, 14, 16; birth of, 9; chronology of the life of, 187-88; conception of philosophy of, 13-21; contem porary relevance of, 82-86; education of, 13-14; fame of, 6; family of, 7-12, 192; filial piety of, 35; in dialogue with contemporaries, 4; in relation to Henry the novelist, 10-12; nervous breakdown of, 15, 39; on Thayer expedition to Brazil, 14; temperament of, 21; works by, 189-90; youth of, 13-14
James, William, Jr., 191
Johns Hopkins University, 47, 72
Joyce, 12
Jung, 43
Kallen, H. M., 190, 191
Kant, 34, 83, 131
Kierkegaard, 83
Knight, Margaret, 191
Knowledge, 50, 53, 54, 66, 106, 130, 131, 134
Lange, C. G., 25-26
Le Breton, Maurice, 191
Le Clair, Robert C., 190
Leibniz, 48
Lincoln, Abraham, 121
Linschoten, Johannes, 191
Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, The (William James), 35, 189
Literature, 4, 28
Locke, 27, 60, 62, 83, 165
Logic, 48, 84, 122, 123, 131, 152, 177, 179, 182
Loring, Katherine Peabody, 10
Lotze, 71,115
Lovejoy, A. O., 6, 16, 193, 194
Maire, Gilbert, 191
Martland, Thomas R., 191
Materialism, 17, 46, 51
Matter, 116, 166
Matthiessen, F. O., 192
Mead, George Herbert, 6, 73, 193, 198
Meaning of Truth, The (William James), 57, 59, 189, 196, 198
Ménard, A., 192
Metaphysical Club, The, 47-48
Metaphysics, 49-50, 56, 63, 64, 74, 75, 78, 80, 160, 161; pragmatic method in, 162, 166-68
Mill, John Stuart, 53, 60, 95
Miller, Dickinson S., 72
Mind, 23-25, 89, 95, 112, n3; object before, 103; substantive states of, 99-101; transitive states of, 99-101. See also Consciousness, Stream of consciousness, and Thought.
Monism, 58, 59, 77, 180-83. See also Idealism.
Montague, William P., 195
Moore, Edward C., 192
Morality (Moral questions, Moral view), 20, 81, 138-40, 142. See also Ethics.
Morris, Lloyd, 25, 192, 194
Murphy, Gardner, 190
Myers, F. W., 43, 152-53
Mysticism, 42, 76, 151
Nansen, 120
Nausée, La (J. P. Sartre), 39
Newman, 126
Nominalism, 50, 167 Notes of a Son and Brother (Henry James, Jr.) 12, 192
Objective evidence, 129, 130, 132
Origin of Species (Darwin), 4
Ostwald, 163, 164
Otto, Max C., 192
Over-belief, 154, 155, 158
Pantheism, 151, 154
Papini, G., 46, 167
Pascal, 41, 121, 122, 123, 126, 138, 139
Passion vs. intellect,127-28, 133, 135, 137, 143, see also Belief.
Peirce, Benjamin, 47
Peirce, Charles, 3, 4, 11, 46-48, 50, 79, 80, 84, 162, 163, 196
Perry, Ralph Barton, viii, 35, 58, 85, 189-97 passim
Pessimism, 18, 19
Phenomenology in psychology, 30; of religion, 37
“Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results” (William James), 45, 46
Philosophy, 128-29, 158, 183; American, 3-7 passim, 60; French, 16, 17; function of, 165; present situation in, 70; temperament in, 19, 22, 166. See also Tender-minded and Tough-minded.
Photometric Researches (C. S. Peirce), 47
Pillon, François, 16
Pluralism, 6, 21, 69-81, 84-85, 91, 180-83, 197, 198; and absolutism, 70-76; and antiintellectualism, 78; and ethics, 80-81; and problem of evil, 75-76; and radical empiricism, 76-77
Pluralistic Universe, A. (William James), 21, 63, 77, 189, 197, 198; selections from, 174-83
Positivism, 49, 50, 167
Practical meaning, 161, 171
Practice, 163, 164
Pragmatism, 6, 7, 21, 45-56, 73, 83-84, 196; and radical empiricism, 57-60 passim; and theory of truth, 49, 169-73; in religion, 158-59; meaning of, 160-68; method of, 49, 162; movement of, 45, 163; religious context of, 46; scientific context of, 46-47
Pragmatism (William James), 20, 46, 52, 57, 69, 187, 189, 194-98 passim; selections from, 160-73
Premier Essai (C. Renouvier), 16
Principles of Psychology (William James), 16, 18, 23-28 passim, 33, 62, 65, 77, 83, 85, 187, 189, 194-95
Problem of Christianity, The (Royce), 73
Proust, 12
Psychical research, 34, 188, 190
Psychoanalysis, 34
Psychology, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22-34, 62, 64, 85, 91, 105, 120, 194-95; of religion, 21, 35-44, 85, 195-96. See also Consciousness, Mind, Stream of consciousness, and Thought.
Psychology, Briefer Course (William James), 28, 187, 189, 194; selections from, 89-115.
Radical empiricism, 21, 34, 57-68, 77, 84, 196; and pluralism, 76; and pragmatism, 57-60 passim; as generalized conclusion, 59, 63; as philosophic method, 58; as statement of fact, 59, 61-62; postulate of, 59, 60-61. See also Empiricism.
Rationalism (Rationality), 19, 40, 49, 62, 151. See also Intellectualism.
Realism, 34, 58, 65, 67, 68, 73, 84
Reality, 54, 79, 169, 172, 174, 176, 181, 183. See also Fact.
Reason, 41, 113, 121, 125, 166, 177, 182
Reck, R. D., 116
“Reflex Action and Theism” (William James), 18
Reid, Thomas, 131
Relation, 61, 63, 76, 101-103, 106, 107, 109, 175
Religion, 4, 34, 35-44, 142,44־ 45; and pragmatism, 46; common nucleus of, 148-49; of healthy minded, 38, 42; of sick soul, 38, 39, 42; of twice-born, 40, 42; psychology of, 21, 35-44, 85, 195-96
Religious Aspects of Philosophy (Royce), 72
Religious experience, 37-43; philosophical meaning of, 148-59
Renouvier, Charles, 15-19 passim, 76, 85
Reverdin, Henri, 192
Roback, A. A., 192
Royce, Josiah, 3, 4, 11, 47, 71-73, 75, 193, 198
Santayana, George, 3, 5, 68, 193
Schiller, F. S. C., 46, 55, 76
Schmidt, Hermann, 192
Schopenhauer, 114
Science, 4, 16-18 passim, 22, 37, 48, 49, 59, 123, 137-39 passim, 142, 152, 153, 157, 166; of religions, 151, 154; philosophy of, 164
Secrétan, Charles, 142
Self, 96, 98, 115, 150, 154, 155, 157, 179; as subconscious, 152-53. See also Consciousness and the Subconscious.
Sensationalism, 101
Skepticism, 128, 131, 139, 143
Small Boy and Others, A (Henry James, Jr.), 12, 192
Socrates, 165, 176
Solomon, 166
Some Problems of Philosophy (William James), 16, 65, 67, 189, 197
Spencer, Herbert, 4, 16, 23, 24, 137, 194
Stream of consciousness, the, 12, 25, 28, 29, 62, 78, 89-115
Subconscious, the, 34, 43, 44, 152-53
Subject and object, 117
Subjectivism, 18, 62
Sully, 23
Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 8
Taine, 114
Tender-minded, 20-21, 49
Theism, 18, 46, 51, 151
Theology, 8, 9, 40, 42, 151, 152. See also God and Religion.
Thought, 17-18, 19, 89-91, 106, 175. See also Consciousness and Mind.
Thought and Character of William James, The (R. B. Perry), 191, 192, 194, 195
Time, 96, 97, 175, 194. See also Change.
Tough-minded, 20-21, 49
Truth, 5, 42, 57, 67, 126, 128, 131, 134, 136, 137, 143, 145, 150, 166, 177, 182; copy theory of, 170, 172; pragmatic theory of, 52-55, 58, 60, 169-73
Turner, John Evan, 192
University of California (Berkeley), 45, 71, 72, 163
Utilitarianism, 53, 167
Varieties of Religious Experience (William James), 15, 36, 40, 42, 46, 77, 83, 187, 189, 195; selections from, 148-59
Verification, 50-51, 54, 57,137, 146, 171-72
Voluntarism, 18. See also Will.
Ward, Thomas W., 22
Washington Square (Henry James, Jr.), 11
Weber, 22
Weismann, 137
Weiss, Paul, 196
Whitehead, A. N., 85
Will (Volition), 31, 32, 41, 83, 118, 121, 125, 127
Will to Believe, The (William James), 16, 36, 41, 46, 58, 80, 187, 189, 194, 196, 198; selections from, 118-47
Windelband, 71
World and the Individual, The (Royce), 72
Wright, Chauncey, 47
Wundt, 22
Yale University, 46
Zeno, 100
Zöllner, 131
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