William James (1842–1910) was the brother of the novelist Henry James. Along with CS Peirce, James would achieve his own recognition with the founding of the first homegrown American school of ...

A glance at the summer issue of Partisan Review: William James, an American public philosopherYes, there really was a time when America had public philosophers, writes Cushing Strout, a professor ...

And the great champion of pragmatism was the philosopher William James. He was maybe the most free-ranging thinker in American history. And he settled on this: what works.

Unlike many philosophers James did not have so much of his life invested in abstract theorizing that he could feel compelled to enshrine truth as a self-evident end-in-itself.

William James In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Robert D. Richardson Houghton Mifflin: 622 pp., $30 ...

On a day when ‘everyone is Irish,’ it’s good to remember when not everyone wanted to be. Even some Irish. By John Kaag Mr. Kaag is a professor of philosophy and an author. In 1789, a young ...