Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection of Williams James essays edited and published posthumously by James colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry. It was assembled from a collection of reprinted journal articles published which James had deposited at the Harvard University Library and the Harvard Department of Philosophy for supplemental use by his students.
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the...

"The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston and at Columbia University, in New York. They are printed as delivered, without developments or notes. The pragmatic movement, so-called-I do not like the name, but apparently it is too late to change it- seems to have rather suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. A number of tendencies that have always existed in philosophy have all at once become conscious of themselves collectively, and of their combined mission; and this has occurred in so many countries, and from so many different points of view, that much...

Talks To Teachers is comprised of lectures on teaching deal with psychology and teaching art, stream of consciousness, the child as a behaving organism, education & behavior, native and acquired reactions, habit, association of ideas, attention, memory, acquisition of ideas, perception, and more. The three addresses to students are The Gospel of Relaxation, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings" and What Makes a Life Significant?
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on psychology, educational psychology,...

William James publication of Pragmatism, in which he promoted his philosophical doctrine on what he called radical empiricism, was subject to both praise and criticism. As a result he published a sequel, The Meaning of Truth, in an effort to clarify his arguments toward objective truth.
"THE pivotal part of my book named Pragmatism is its account of the relation called truth which may obtain between an idea and its object. Truth, I there say, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. Pragmatists and intellectualists...