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The Oxford Handbook of William James

Buch | Hardcover

624 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-939569-9 (ISBN)

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William James was a giant of turn-of-the-century intellectual life. He helped found the young science of physiological psychology, produced a series of widely debated texts on religious experience and on the ethics of faith, co-founded the pragmatist movement in philosophy, and at the end of his life, developed a distinctive metaphysics concerning the relationship between mind and matter that is still influential today.

In philosophy, James is remembered for his pragmatism, an outlook that ties truth and meaning to practical results, and for his will to believe doctrine, which defends a right to believe even without evidence, in some cases. His landmark contributions to psychology include his theory that emotions are feelings of bodily changes following excitement--that "we feel sorry because we cry, are angry because we strike" and not vice versa. His Varieties of Religious Experience offered an intimate look at intense, personal, and often heterodox religious experiences.

Featuring twenty-nine new essays by leading scholars like Gary Hatfield, Philip Kitcher, Cheryl Misak, and Jesse Prinz, this Oxford Handbook provides an organized, chapter-by-chapter presentation of key themes in James's thought. These themes include attention, emotion, consciousness, evolution, intentionality, truth, religion, ethics, pragmatism, mathematics, and radical empiricism. James was an extraordinarily dialectical thinker, and his engagement with figures from Hume and Hegel to Peirce and Dewey are covered along with his influence on later phenomenology and analytic philosophy. Each chapter provides those new to James with an accessible route into a topic of interest, while also providing seasoned readers sophisticated interpretations by the best living scholars working on James today.

Alexander Klein is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. His essays have been published in journals such as Philosopher's Imprint and Journal of the History of Philosophy. He has held research positions funded by Fulbright and by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and has held postdocs at Cornell and the University of Toronto.

Introduction, Alexander Klein

Part 1: Mind
1. James and Attention, Jesse Prinz
2. James's Revolutionary Theory of Emotions, Heleen Pott
3. James and Spatial Perception, Gary Hatfield
4. James and Consciousness, Alexander Klein

Part 2: Science
5. James and Evolution, Trevor Pearce
6. James and Medicine, Paul Croce
7. James and Parapsychology, Andreas Sommer
8. Psychology and Philosophy in James, David Leary

Part 3: Value
9. James and Ethics, Sarin Marchetti
10. James and religion, Stephen Bush
11. James and Value Pluralism, Robert Talisse
12. James and Politics, Trygve Throntveit

Part 4: Meaning, Truth, and Pragmatism
13. James on Percepts and Concepts, James O'Shea
14. James, Intentionality, and Analysis, Henry Jackman
15. James and Truth, Tom Donaldson
16. James and Pragmatism, Philip Kitcher
17. James and Epistemic Pluralism, Ignas Skrupskelis

Part 5: Later Metaphysics
18. James's Radical Empiricism, Wes Cooper
19. James and the Metaphysics of Intentionality, Jeremy Dunham
20. James and Math, Francesca Bordogna

Part 6: Conversations, Past
21. James and Hume, Yumiko Inukai
22. James and Hegel, Robert Stern
23. James and Emerson, Russell Goodman

Part 7: Conversations, Present
24. James and Renouvier, Mathias Girel
25. James and Peirce, Claudine Tiercelin
26. James and Dewey, Tom Burke

Part 8: Conversations, Future
27. James and British Analytic Philosophy, Cheryl Misak
28. James and Wittgenstein, Anna Boncompagni
29. James and Phenomenology, Steven Levine

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1157 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-939569-1 / 0199395691
ISBN-13	978-0-19-939569-9 / 9780199395699
Zustand	Neuware