Essays in Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 1978
ISBN: 978-0-674-26712-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 902 g

Reihe: The Works of William James

Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between 1876 and 1910. They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems. Several of the essays, like "The Sentiment of Rationality" and "The Knowing of Things Together," are of particular significance in the development of the views of James's later works. All of them, as John McDermott says in his Introduction, are in a style that is "engaging and personal.witty, acerbic, compassionate, and polemical." Whether he is writing an article for the Nation of a definition of "Experience" for Baldwin's Dictionary or "The Mad Absolute" for the Journal of Philosophy, James is always unmistakably himself, and always readable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, William

Burkhardt, Frederick

Bowers, Fredson

Skrupskelis, Ignas K.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McDermott, John J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Über Autor(innen)

Burkhardt, Frederick
Frederick Burkhardt, formerly a professor of philosophy and then a college president, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Skrupskelis, Ignas K.
Ignas K. Skrupskelis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

Bowers, Fredson
Fredson Bowers is Linden Kent Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia.