Older brother of novelist Henry James, William James (1842-1910) was a philosopher, psychologist, physiologist, and professor at Harvard. James has influenced such twentieth-century thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermans, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva.
Giles Gunn is Professor of English and of Global & International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is author of 'Culture of Criticism and Criticism of Culture' and edited Early American Writing for Penguin.

From The Meaning of Truth (1909)
Preface
The Tigers in India
Humanism and Truth
From Psychology: Briefer Course (1892)
The Stream of Consciousness

From The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
Preface
The Will to Believe
Is Life Worth Living?
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life

From Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (1899)
II. On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
III. What Makes a Life Significant
Miscellaneous Essays
Address at the Centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)
A World of Pure Experience (1904)
Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic? (1905)

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