Yes, there really was a time when America had public philosophers, writes Cushing Strout, a professor emeritus of American studies at Cornell University. Three men in particular were especially ...

James’s “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life” sheds light not only on his views on ethics but also on his general approach to objectivity. Indeed, the paper is most interesting not for the ...

It makes no difference what pretensions the philosopher may parade as to the coersive nature of his arguments. Whatever principles he may reason from, and whatever logic he may follow, he is at bottom ...

FOR William James the ‘ facts ’ of chief importance in the universe were persons. He began his thinking from that end. Among those who have earned the name of philosopher there is none whose ...

WILLIAM JAMES, the well-known psychologist and philosopher, was born in New York on January 11, 1842, the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James and brother of the novelist Henry James. He ...

This post is a review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag. In 2010, thirty-year-old John Kaag, a postdoctoral student in philosophy at Harvard, had just ...

Scott McLemee is a columnist for Philosophers magazine and essayist-at-large for InsideHigherEd.com. “HE was born,” German philosopher Martin Heidegger once said in a lecture about Aristotle. “He ...

On a day when ‘everyone is Irish,’ it’s good to remember when not everyone wanted to be. Even some Irish. By John Kaag Mr. Kaag is a professor of philosophy and an author. In 1789, a young man of 18 ...

Founders of Camp William James held a reunion in 1977, the first time they had gathered since the camp closed in 1942. Dartmouth College Library William James was a philosophical heavyweight, but he’s ...

Review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. By John Kaag. Princeton University Press. 210 pp. $ 22.95 In 2010, thirty-year-old John Kaag, a postdoctoral student in ...