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Full or partial texts of the writings of William James.

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• A World of Pure Experience

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/experience.htm
  1904 essay by James, in which he attempts to articulate his Weltanschauung as a philosophy of pure experience.

• Does 'Consciousness' Exist?

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/consciousness.htm
  1904 essay by James, in which he contends that the word "consciousness" refers only to a function, not to an entity.

• Great Men and Their Environment

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/James/great_men.html
  An 1880 speech by James, exploring the parallel between social evolution and Darwin's "zoological" evolution.

• Squashed James

  http://sqapo.com/james.htm
  The condensed edition of William James' 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'

• The Chicago School

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/chicago.htm
  A 1904 essay by James detailing the doctrine of John Dewey and his disciples.

• The Energies of Men

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/energies.htm
  James' 1906 address to the American Philosophical Association, in which he lays the outlines of a concrete individual psychology.

• The Principles of Psychology

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/
  Online edition of 1890 text by William James.

• The Stream of Consciousness

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm
  A chapter from James' 1892 work, Psychology.

• What Is an Emotion?

  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm
  Psychological essay by James, from 1884.

• What Pragmatism Means

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/james.htm
  Text of a 1904 lecture in which William James succinctly explains the philosophical position of pragmatism.

 

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