A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. 1842–1910. Psychologist and philosopher, and brother of novelist Henry James, he was born in New York and spent his life partly travelling and partly working at Harvard. Philosophically he is best known as a leading PRAGMATIST, though also in connexion with the JAMES-LANGE THEORY of the emotions and with neutral MONISM. The Principles of Psychology, 1890 (includes much philosophy too).
The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902. Pragmatism, 1907. The Nature of Truth, 1909 (supplement to Pragmatism). Essays in Radical Empiricism, 1912 (neutral monism). See also EMPIRCISM, SANTAYANA.
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