Synopses & Reviews
When William James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. Much of it is of biographical interest only, but the largest part is concerned with James's work. The present volume, the first of two that will bring
The Works of William James to completion, includes the manuscripts devoted to work in progress on philosophical and psychological subjects. The last volume will bring together the manuscripts relating to James's public lectures and teaching.
The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." This was material for the book that James hoped would be the full technical exposition of his philosophy of radical empiricism. It contains discussions of problems and concepts that are not found in his published work. Closely related to this are his responses to the so-called Miller-Bode objections, which charged that his philosophy of pure experience could not solve the problem of the many and the one or the question "How can two minds know the same thing?" James's notes record his offers to work his way out of the impasse, which eventually led to his formulation of radical empiricism and his total rejection of the mind-body dualism that had dominated Western philosophy since Descartes.
The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over a period of forty years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries. The diverse subjects are arranged under the headings of Philosophy, Psychology, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion. Of special interest are the early notes in which James began to work out his own philosophical point of view.
Synopsis
When William James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. Much of it is of biographical interest only, but the largest part is concerned with James's work. The present volume, the first of two that will bring < i="">
About the Author
Ignas K. Skrupskelis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis
Manuscript Essays and Notes
I. THE MANY AND THE ONE 1903-1904
1. Introduction: Philosophies Paint Pictures
2. Introduction
3. Common Sense
4. [Pragmatism]
5. World of Pure Experience
6. Chapter I: Continuity
7. Possibility
8, Necessity
Appendix to The Many and the One 1903-1909
9. [Notes on Continuity I]
10. [Notes on Continuity II]
11. [Notes on Activity I]
12. [Notes on Activity II]
13. [Notes on Activity III]
14. [Reflections on Strong's Book I]
15. [Reflections on Strong's Book II]
II. THE MILLER-BODE OBJECTIONS 1905-1908
16. [The Miller-Bode Objections]
III. ESSAYS AND NOTES 1870-1910
A. Philosophy
17. Miscellanea I: Mostly Concerning Empiricism 1870-1873
18. Idealism, etc. 1870-1873
19. Against Nihilism 1873-1875
20. [Hodgson's Time and Space] 1875-1876
21. On Sensation and Will 1875-1882
22. [Note on Empiricism] 1876-1877
23. Identity 1877-1878
24. Syntheses a Priori 1878-1884
25. Idealism: Short Lecture 1878-1884
26. Confusion of Conditions with Contents of Thought 1878-1885
27. [The Cerebral and the Mental] 1878-1885
28. Phenomenalism 1879-1880
29. Panpsychism 1879-1880
30. Idealism [I] 1880-1884
31. Idealism [II] 1880-1884
32. Cognition Idealism 1880-1885
33. [Notes on Infinity] 1880-1899
34. Classification 1881-1882
35. Must Idealism Be Monistic? 1883-1885
36. Idealism [III] 1884
37. Article on Kant 1896-1900
38. Royce's Argument for the Absolute 1899
39. "Roseau" 1899-1904
40. Münsterberg's Book 1900-1904
41. Idealism [IV] 1902-1903
42. [Notes on Bergson] 1902-1908
43. Infinity 1902-1910
44. Possibility: The World of Platonic Ideas 1903-1904
45. Heymans's Book 1905-1906
46. [Fragment on Rationalists] 1906
47. [Note on Royce's Absolute] 1907
48. [Interview on Pragmatism] 1907
49. Hegelism 1907-1908
50. Truth--Reality, etc. 1907-1910
51. [Fragment on Radical Empiricism] 1910
B. Psychology
52. [Draft on Brain Processes and Feelings] 1872
53. [Notes on Feelings of Movement] 1878-1880
54. [Mental Structure and Experience] 1880-1890
55. [Notes on Perception] 1882-1885
56. Chapter II: The Object of Cognition & the judgment of Reality 1883-1884
Appendix
57. [Proposal for the American Psychopathological Society] 1909-1910
C. Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion
58. [Notes on Art and Pessimism] 1873
59. Religions Guarantee 1875
6o. Magnolia 1.Sept. 1, 2 1875
61. [Notes on Ethics I] 1878-1885
62. [Notes on Ethics II] 1888-1889
63. Faith [I] 1895-1903
64. [Faith II] 1899-1901
65. [Notes on Ethics III] 1899-1901
66. Emerson 1905
Notes
Appendix
A Month on the Solimoens
A Note on the Editorial Method
Textual Apparatus
Index