SYLLABUS
Texts:
William James: In The Maelstrom of American Modernism, by Robert Richardson (a must to understanding James)
Essay collections
William James Writings (2 volumes), The Library of America (recommended)
William James Writings (2 volumes), The Library of America (recommended)
The Writings of William James, edited by John McDermott
The Heart of William James, edited by Robert Richardson
I. James, the psychologist and ethical philosopher
Essays:
Habit
Stream of Consciousness
The Will to Believe
Is Life Worth Living?
The Sentiment of Rationality
The Dilemma of Determinism
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
II. Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
The Stream of Consciousness
The Will
The Gospel of Relaxation
On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings
What Makes A Life Significant?
III. Pragmatism
All eight lectures
IV. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Lectures I, II, and XX
V. Radical Empiricism
Does Conscious Exist?
A World of Pure Experience
VI. Pluralism
Selected essays from A Pluralistic Universe
Ed Craig
--and see 5 steps to know WJ...
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