The Meaning of Truth - James, William
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Why is real-world experience vital to a mature appreciation of any philosophical system? Why is the search for ¿objective truth¿ a trickier proposition than it seems at first glance? American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842¿1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the most influential academics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, in a series of essays first published in…mehr

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Why is real-world experience vital to a mature appreciation of any philosophical system? Why is the search for ¿objective truth¿ a trickier proposition than it seems at first glance? American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842¿1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the most influential academics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, in a series of essays first published in book form in 1909, and considered a sequel to his series of lectures collected in Pragmatism (also available from Cosimo), James explores these questions as he discusses: ¿ the function of cognition ¿ humanism and truth ¿ the relation between knower and known ¿ the essence of humanism ¿ the meaning of the word truth ¿ the absolute and strenuous life ¿ and more.
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William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist. He was born on January 11, 1842, and died on August 26, 1910. He was the first teacher in the United States to teach a psychology course. James and Charles Sanders Peirce started the philosophical school called pragmatism, and James is also considered one of the founders of functional psychology. James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and he started teaching in those fields. However, he was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was becoming a science. James's knowledge of the work of people like Hermann Helmholtz in Germany and Pierre Janet in France helped him get scientific psychology classes started at Harvard University. In the 1875-1876 school year, he taught his first experimental psychology class at Harvard.