A Pluralistic Universe

by William James

Overview

Accessible, common-sense approach to the nature of the universe and the meaning of life. According to Wikipedia: "William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City. He was the son of Henry James Sr., an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day. The intellectual brilliance of the James family milieu and the remarkable epistolary talents of several of its members have made them a subject of continuing interest to historians, biographers, and critics."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455303090
Publisher:	Seltzer Books
Publication date:	12/20/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	640 KB

About the Author

Fredson Bowers is Linden Kent Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia.

Ignas K. Skrupskelis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

Frederick Burkhardt, formerly a professor of philosophy and then a college president, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction by Richard J. Bernstein

A Pluralistic Universe

Appendix C

Index

Notes

A Note on the Editorial Method

The Text of A Pluralistic Universe

1. The History

2. The Documents

3. The Editorial Problem

Apparatus

Emendations

Textual Notes

Historical Collation

Alterations in the Manuscripts

Word-Division

Appendix: James's Reply to W.P. Montague

General Index

Key to the Pagination of editions