 Frank Pajares
has created an excellent, straight forward portal for research on William James.
This site is fitting for those looking to find an introduction to James'
work as well as those interested in more in-depth study.
Site includes:
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From a course entitled New Age, New Thought: William James and
the Varieties of Religious Experience given at Brooks Divinity School. (An
amazing website!)
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You can subscribe to an e-mail discussion group on
William and the James Family. To join, send an e-mail message to listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu with the
message SUBSCRIBE JAMESF-L YOURNAME (replacing "YOURNAME" with your own full
name). You will receive instructions about accessing the archive and posting messages.
Thanks to Randal Albright for this information.
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This online lecture hall (Chat and message board) is devoted
to all contemplations, musings, and queries concerning William James.
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Every day, on the hour, fans of the Great Books from around
the world gather here to participate in a live recitation centered about William James.
Generally this chatroom is most active from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST, but you may arrange
other times to meet here in the William James Lecture
Hall, where you can also post more permanent messages and enjoy an archive of fellow
student's wit and wisdom.
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Essay by Eugene Taylor, Harvard University Medical School "All
trends pertaining to the mind/body problem in the late 19th century, from both popular and
high culture, seem now in retrospect to culminate in the functionalism of the American
philosopher-psychologist, William James (1842-1910)." |
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Essay by Demitri Tymoczko. "Do drugs make
religious experience possible? They did
for James and for other philosopher-mystics of his day.
James's experiments with psychoactive drugs raise
difficult questions about belief and its conditions" |
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Edited by his son, Henry James, Jr. William James corresponded
with many people of many sorts. Sometimes he communicated by postcards, or short notes; at
others he wrote copious letters. Whether he was compressing his correspondence into the
briefest messages, or allowing it to expand into letters of friendly badinage and extended
comment, he was incapable of writing a half page that was not characteristic, free, and
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Essay by Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. Modified
from the Catalogue Accompanying an Exhibition of Books from the Collections of the
National Library of Medicine, Held in Honor of the Centennial Celebration of the American
Psychological Association, August 7 to December 15, 1992
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Section of above Essay by Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr
College pertaining directly to William James. "In the 138 years that separated the Elementa
Philosophica (1752) of Samuel Johnson from William James's Principles of
Psychology, a rich and surprisingly large corpus of material bearing directly on
psychological issues was published in America." |
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An essay about William James and Charles Darwin by Jonathan
Schull.
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Essay by R.H. Albright (Boston, MA; 1997-98)
"William James (1842-1910) is to me the embodiment of what a Doctor with great
bedside manner should do: make you feel good!"
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Essay by Ekaterina Roubina, Winter 1996. Contains a brief
description of main landmarks in the life and work of William James, who is considered to
be the father of modern American psychology.
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From David Wulff's The Psychology of Religion:
Contemporary and Classic Views. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1991.
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Essay by William James. From A Pluralistic Universe,
New York, 1909, pp. 321-4 and Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
[1907], New York, l909, pp. 52-61; reprinted by permission of Longmans, Green & Co.,
Ltd. and Paul R. Reynolds Inc.
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From a course entitled New Age, New Thought: William James and
the Varieties of Religious Experience given at Brooks Divinity School. "William
James was so widely-read that discovering all the people who influenced him is an
impossible task. Many of the philosophers, psychologists, theologians, and literary
figures that James read are well-known. Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, for example, are all
familiar to modern audiences, especially those with any background at all in
philosophy." |
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An internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green
York University, Toronto, Ontario and Featured in the Science & Engineering
Network News (October, 1998).
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Written by James Jackson, Atlantic Monthly, 1910.
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