Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398) and index
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Pragmatism and introspective psychology / Gerald E. Myers -- Consciousness as a pragmatist views it / Owen Flanagan -- John Dewey's naturalization of William James / Richard M. Gale -- James, Clifford, and the scientific conscience / David A. Hollinger -- Religious faith, intellectual responsibility, and romance / Richard Rorty -- The breathtaking intimacy of the material world : William James's last thoughts / Bruce Wilshire -- James, aboutness, and his British critics / T.L.S. Sprigge -- Logical principles and philosophical attitudes : Peirce's response to James pragmatism / Christopher Hookway -- James's theory of truth / Hilary Putnam -- The James/Royce dispute and the development of James's "solution" / James Conant -- William James on religious experience / Richard R. Niebuhr -- Interpreting the universe after a social analogy : intimacy, panpsychism, and a finite god in a pluralistic universe / David C. Lamberth -- Moral philosophy and the development of morality / Graham H. Bird -- Some of life's ideals / Ruth Anna Putnam -- "A shelter of the mind" : Henry, William, and the domestic scene / Jessica R. Feldman -- The influence of William James on American culture / Ross Posnock -- Pragmatism, politics, and the corridor / Harvey J. Cormier -- James and the Kantian tradition / Thomas Carlson
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James was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. These essays deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues of his time