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American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the most influential academics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, in a series of essays first published in book form in 1909, and considered a sequel to his series of lectures collected in Pragmatism (also available from Cosimo), James explores these questions as he discusses:
• the function of cognition
• humanism and truth
• the relation between knower and known
• the essence of humanism
• the meaning of the word truth
• the absolute and strenuous life
• and more.
Foreword
Introduction by H.S. Thayer
The Meaning of Truth
Notes
A Note on the Editorial Method
The Text of The Meaning of Truth
Apparatus
Emendations
Textual Notes
Historical Collation
Alternations in the Manuscripts
Word-Division
Appendixes
1. Abstract of "The Knowing of Things Together"
2. Abstract of " The Meaning of the Word Truth"
3. W. James's Statement
4. Annotations in Bertrand Russell's " Transatlantic 'Truth'"
5. Four Letters from William James to James B. Pratt
General Index
Key to the Pagination of Editions
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Overview
American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the ...