THE PRAGMATISM OF WILLIAM JAMES With an Introduction by John R. Shook thoemmes CONTENTS Introduction, John R. Shook ix Section One: Writings by William James "Remarks on Spencer's Definition of Mind as Correspondence." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12.1 (January 1878): 1-18. 3 "The Sentiment of Rationality." Mind o.s. 4.3 (July 1879): 317-346. 16 "On the Function of Cognition." Mind o.s. 10.1 (January 1885): 27-44. 44 "The Perception of Reality." The Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1890), vol. 2, chap. 21, pp. 283-322. 59 "The Will to Believe." The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897), chap. 1, pp. 1-31. 93 "Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results." The University (of California) Chronicle 1 (September 1898): 287-310. 110 "Pragmatism." Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, ed. James Mark Baldwin (New York: Macmillan, 1902), vol. 2, pp. 321. 126 "What Pragmatism Means." Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907), chap. 2, pp. 43-81. 127 "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth." Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907), chap. 6, pp. 197-236. 141 vi The Pragmatism of William James "Humanism and Truth." The Meaning of Truth (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), chap. 3, pp. 51-101. 155 "The Pragmatist Account of Truth and its Misunderstanders." The Meaning of Truth (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), chap. 8, pp. 180-216. 173 "The Meaning of the Word Truth." The Meaning of Truth (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), chap. 9, pp. 217-220. 187 Section Two: Memorials and Remembrances of James Horace M. Kallen. "William James." The Nation 91.10 (8 September 1910): 210-211. 191 Giovanni Papini. "William James." La Voce2(8 September 1910): 391. 194 John Dewey. "William James." Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 7.19 (15 September 1910): 505-508. 198 Eric S. Waterhouse. "Professor William James." London Quarterly Review 114.2 (October 1910): 317-320. 202 Wilhelm Jerusalem. "William James." Die Zukunft 73.6 (5 November 1910): 186-190. 205 Walter Lippmann. "An Open Mind: William James." Everybody's Magazine 23.12 (December 1910): 800-801. 209 James R. Angell. "William James." Psychological Review 18.1 (January 1911): 78-82. 212 Emile Boutroux. "William James: Life and Personality." William James, trans. Archibald Henderson and Barbara Henderson (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), pp. 10-18. 217 Contents vii Section Three: Evaluations of James's Pragmatism, 1910-1940 Bertrand Russell. "William James's Conception of Truth." Philosophical Essays (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), chap. 5, pp. 127-149. 223 Josiah Royce. "James as a Philosopher." Science n.s. 34.863 (14 July 1911): 33^5. 236 George Santayana. "William James." Character and Opinion in the United States (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), chap. 3, pp. 64-96. 251 Horace M. Kallen. "America and the Life of Reason. II." Journal of Philosophy 18.21 (13 October 1921): 568-575. 263 Jacques Maritain. "William James and His Impetuous Philosophy." Living Age 311.4036 (12 November 1921): 392-396. 270 Henri Bergson. "Preface." William James: Extraits de sa correspondance, ed. Floris Delattre and Maurice Le Breton (Paris: Payot, 1924), pp. 7-12. 275 F. C. S. Schiller. "William James and the Making of Pragmatism." The Personalist 8.2 (April 1927): 81-93. 278 Ralph B. Perry. "The Place of William James in the History of Empiricism." Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Philosophy, ed. Gilbert Ryle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931), pp. 480-486. 287 John Dewey. "The Philosophy of William James." Southern Review 2.3 (Winter 1937): 447-461. 294 John Dewey. "The Vanishing Subject in the Psychology of James." Journal of Philosophy 2,122 (24 October 1940): 589-599. 306 Acknowledgements 317 Index 319.