William James Sciences Of The Mind And Anti Imperial Discourse

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
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ISBN 13 : 9781107419292
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Download or read book William James, Sciences of the Mind, and Anti-imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026954
Total Pages : 437 pages
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Download or read book William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434351
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades, the humanities and social sciences have developed new methods of reorienting their conceptual frameworks in a 'world without frontiers'. In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James provide a window into contemporary debates over principles of toleration, anti-imperial discourse and the nature of ethics. Baker revisits Jamesian approaches to the formation of scientific objects including the child mind, exceptional mental states and the ghost to explore the possibilities and limits of social scientific thought dedicated to mind development and discipline formation around the construct of the West.

Author : Alexander Livingston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237171
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damn Great Empires! written by Alexander Livingston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines -- as the key to unlocking the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations. Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in James's major works, from his writings on the self in The Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the conventional view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions of politics, this book places him in dialogue with a transatlantic critique of modernity, as well as with champions and critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E. B. Du Bois, in order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing the history of political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires! offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.

Author : George Cotkin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Public Philosopher written by George Cotkin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians and their students."--Robert C. Bannister, "American Historical Review."

Author : Joshua I. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Temperament written by Joshua I. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American psychologist and pragmatist philosopher James (1842- 1910) is generally considered too individualistic to have had any interest in politics, but Miller argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work. He finds in James a theorist of action, explores the complexities of his theory, and related his thought to Miller's own experience as a political activist and scholar. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : George Stuart Fullerton
Publisher : Editions Le Mono
ISBN 13 : 2366594534
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are We Automata? written by George Stuart Fullerton and published by Editions Le Mono. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James, American psychologist and philosopher, was mainly known by his works on The Principles of Psychology and the Pragmatism. --- Everyone is now acquainted with the Conscious-Automaton-theory... The theory maintains that in everything outward we are pure material machines. Feeling is a mere collateral product of our nervous processes, unable to react upon them any more than a shadow reacts on the steps of the traveller whom it accompanies. Inert, uninfluential, a simple passenger in the voyage of life, it is allowed to remain on board, but not to touch the helm or handle the rigging. The theory also maintains that we are in error to suppose that our thoughts awaken each other by inward congruity or rational necessity, that disappointed hopes cause sadness, premisses conclusions, etc... The feelings are merely juxtaposed in that order without mutual cohesion, because the nerve-processes to which they severally correspond awaken each other in that order. It may seem strange that this latter part of the theory should be held by writers, who have openly expressed their belief in Hume's doctrine of causality. That doctrine asserts that the causality we seem to find between the terms of a physical chain of events, is an illegitimate outward projection of the inward necessity by which we feel each thought to sprout out of its customary antecedent. Strip the string of necessity from between ideas themselves, and it becomes hard indeed for a Humian to say how the notion of causality ever was born at all. Are We Automata?

Author : William James
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book William James written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William James
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ISBN 13 : 9781315507491
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Download or read book William James written by William James and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William James
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ISBN 13 : 9780841453685
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Download or read book Memories and Studies written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: