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简介：Readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task will find in A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the world's great ideas. Without simplifying their subject, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins tell the story of philosophy's development with great clarity and refreshing wit. The brevity of their study, in fact, allows readers to see more clearly the connections and divergences between philosophers, as well as the way ideas change, reappear, and evolve over time. The authors begin with the most ancient religious beliefs and bring us right up to the feminist and multicultural philosophies of the present. Along the way, major philosophers are highlighted, from Plato and Aquinas to William James and Simone deBeauvoir, and major categories explored, from metaphysics and ethics to politics and logic.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The body is not just an artifact but actually a many-chambered vessel of great significance to the individual and society; body, self and social interaction are intimately interrelated and constantly reconfigured. Using empirical evidence and armed with symbolic interactionism as explored by John Dewey, William James, Charles Pierce, Charles Copley and George Herbert Mead, contributors explore the sociology of the body in terms of its reflexivity, drama, phenomenology, place in the culture, and function as a form of narrative. papers cover such topics as visibility and invisibility in chronic illness and disability, embodied enactment and experience, managing disabilities and the precariousness of the territories of the self, performance, the body in interpretive sociology, human-horse interaction, the addict's body, the dualism of body image, food metaphors and the black body, masculinity and pregnancy. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介："Reconstructing Public Reason offers a fundamental rethinking of the nature and aims of liberal toleration, and of the political implications of pragmatic philosophy. It also provides fresh interpretations of founding pragmatic thinkers such as John Dewey and William James, and of leading contemporary figures such as John Rawls and Richard Rorty."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A renowned Buddhist philosopher identifies the power of traditional Buddhist meditations to clarify the mind's role in the natural world, explaining the value of skepticism in Buddhism while exploring the radical empiricism of William James and how it can be applied to the four schools of Indian Buddhist philosophy.  

主流英语国际通用教程.二

作者：  (美)Lesley Jones，(英)Paul Simon，(澳)William James编著

出版社：北京大学出版社,2007

简介： 《主流英语国际通用教程》是一本实用型综合教材，具有很强的时代气息、良好的可读性和浓重的趣味性。编写方式新颖，难度排列遵循了“循序渐进”和“以学习者为主体”的教学原则。教材里的语言、文化、社会具有鲜明的地方特色，生动、活泼、亲切；同时又具有整个英语世界的宏观与文化特色，把语言教学融入了文化熏陶，使学生扎扎实实地学好英语。

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简介：Of related interest... SOCIAL ORIGINS OF MENTAL ABILITY -Gary Collier This volume is the first comprehensive, systematic survey of research into the non-hereditary influences on intelligence. Focusing on the cultural, environmental, and social influences on the development of mental abilities, Dr. Collier helps to advance the nurture side of the "nature vs. nurture" debate. He also offers a viable synthesis of supporting facts and ideas from the worlds of psychology, the psychology of personality, and cognitive psychology. This book will have a profound influence upon academe, the psychological community, educators, and policymakers. 1993 (0-471-30407-7) 320 pp. EGO DEFENSES: Theory and Measurement -Edited by Hope R. Conte and Robert Plutchik This book explores the nature and manifestations of defense mechanisms and traces ego defense theory and research from Freud''s initial conceptualization through recent work in object-relations theory and other psychoanalytically oriented approaches. It provides clinical guidelines for diagnosing, assessing, and dealing with defenses, reviews empirical research techniques, and indicates their value in development and in psychotherapy. This volume should be of value to theoreticians, clinicians, and researchers interested in finding appropriate tools for measurement of defense mechanisms. 1994 (0-471-05233-7) 352 pp. A THEORY OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT -Luciano L''Abate with Charles H. Bryson Luciano L''Abate''s theories are rooted in social interactions and life experiences, unlike the more traditional, somewhat metaphysical theories of personality development. In this groundbreaking work, he brings to light the heart of his theory, that the ability to love and to negotiate are the sine qua non of personal competence, with the family as the major determinant of both. This book is essential reading for personality researchers, students, and all psychologists in clinical, developmental, abnormal, and social psychology. 1993 (0-471-30303-8) 336 pp. Handbook of Self-Concept "If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot." -E. M. Cioran It is one of the most intimate of realities and the slipperiest of abstractions. For Sartre it was a double negative and for B. F. Skinner, a set of learned responses. Among exponents of artificial intelligence it is the Oz at the end of the rainbow, while for Voltaire it was an unavoidable pathology. And, ever since William James first identified consciousness of self as a discrete psychological phenomenon, more than a century ago, it has been the source of intense speculation and debate among psychologists. In the past twenty years alone, over 11,000 studies have been conducted on various aspects of self-concept. Much progress has been made, and a general consensus has been reached about many of its aspects, yet, many fundamental questions remain unanswered, such as: What exactly do we mean when we say "self"? Is self-concept an aspect of a broader cognitive self-system, or is it best defined in behavioral terms? How valuable is self-concept to clinical practice? What roles do age, race, gender, and sociocultural variables play in self-concept? Bringing together contributions from leading researchers and clinicians from a broad range of psychological disciplines, this book provides answers to these and other important questions concerning self-concept. It explores all theoretical and applied aspects of self-concept, offering a balanced synthesis of the vast body of information on the subject that has accumulated since the 1970s. Chapters address each of the six primary self-concept domains (competence, social, affect, academic, family, and physical) with an emphasis on the clinical significance of each. In the chapter on clinical assessment, existing self-concept scales are subjected to in-depth quantitative and qualitative review, and readers are provided with standardized tables for organizing the principal characteristics reviewed and comparing individual test results. In the concluding chapter, Dr. Bracken describes the clinical applications of a multidimensional, context-dependent model that facilitates the synthesis of information across instruments (including more than 70 psychoeducational tests and scales provided in an appendix) and informants. Providing practical answers to many of the most important questions about self-concept, Handbook of Self-Concept is essential reading for personality psychologists as well as researchers and educators in developmental, clinical, and social psychology.

主流英语国际通用教程.六

作者：  (美)Lesley Jones，(英)Paul Simon，(澳)William James编著

出版社：北京大学出版社,2007

简介： 《主流英语国际通用教程》是一本实用型综合教材，具有很强的时代气息、良好的可读性和浓重的趣味性。编写方式新颖，难度排列遵循了“循序渐进”和“以学习者为主体”的教学原则。教材里的语言、文化、社会具有鲜明的地方特色，生动、活泼、亲切；同时又具有整个英语世界的宏观与文化特色，把语言教学融入了文化熏陶，使学生扎扎实实地学好英语。

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This collection of essays about, and a couple letters by, Edwin Bissell Holt examines a unique contributor to early American psychology and offers a defense for a renewed interested in his ideas and the issues of psychology he engaged. The collection opens with a preface offering readers background in the philosophical and scientific upheavals that laid the ground for the new sort of investigations Holt would pursue. The two-fold question of introspection and the practico-scientific reality of mental phenomena permeate Holt's work and comes up in these essays. Two letters, to William James in 1905 and Edward Reed in 1979, bracket his life and the collection. Organized into three sections, the essays consider specific responses informed or made by Holt to the problem of illusion, Holt's legacy, and Holt's New Realism against representationalism. The editor, Eric Charles (psychology, Pensylvannia State U.) offers an introduction to Holt's biography and broad influences/interests. The contributors are academic and experimental psychologists from around the world. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 This volume brings to the attention of contemporary readers a tradition of psychological thought that has received little attention over the last century. Psychology's history has been unimaginatively presented as a fight between behaviorists and mentalists. A third alternative, the New Realism, which cuts through that dichotomy, has been lost."The New Realism" was indeed once new. This volume provides a glimpse of how this school of thought attempted to redefine the notion of mental processes, including consciousness, in psychological theoriing. Holt's rejected the nativity of iconoclastic Watsonian behaviorists, and thus the New Realism was thoughtful in ways that behaviorist social engineering was not. The implications of these innovations in psychological theoriing are traced from the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary period. The contributors provide these intellectual links, along with efforts to look at the relatedness of the human organism and its world. At their beginning, these ideas are embedded in a reverence for William James's work, particularly his later Radical Empiricism. In contemporary psychology, this legacy has given us the framework of ecological psychology as we know it today, and provides the basis for several modern critiques of cognitive psychology.The present volume opens the door for future historical inquiries. This is an exemplary addition to the series on the History of Psychological Ideas.  

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简介： The Phenomenological Mindis the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: What is phenomenology? naturalizing phenomenology and the empirical cognitive sciences phenomenology and consciousness consciousness and self-consciousness, including perception and action time and consciousness, including William James intentionality the embodied mind action knowledge of other minds situated and extended minds phenomenology and personal identity This second edition includes a new preface and revised and improved sections on intentionality, the self, and social cognition. It also includes?a completely updated chapter on perception. Interesting and important examples are used throughout, including phantom limb syndrome, blindsight and self-disorders in schizophrenia. Also included are helpful features such as chapter summaries, guides to further reading and a glossary, making The Phenomenological Mindan ideal introduction to key concepts in phenomenology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernismtraces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and recontextualization. It rediscovers a distinctive response to the social, intellectual, and artistic transformations of modernity in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and William James. These thinkers share an institutionally-grounded approach to change which emphasizes habits, continuities, and daily life over spectacular events, heroic opposition, and radical rupture. They developed an active, dialectical attitude that was critical of complacency while refusing to romanticize moments of shock or conflict. Through its analysis of pragmatist keywords, including "habit," "institution," "prediction," and "bigness," Pragmatic Modernismoffers new readings of works by James, Proust, Stein, and Andre Breton, among others. It shows, for instance, how Stein's characteristic literary innovation--her repetitions--aesthetically materialize the problem of habit; and how institutions--businesses, museums, newspapers, the law, and even the state itself--help to construct the subtlest of personal observations and private gestures in James's novels. This study reconstructs an overlooked strain of modernism. In so doing, it helps to re-imagine the stark choice between political quietism and total revolution that has been handed down as modernism's legacy.  

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简介：The Will to Believe addresses several of the most important and perplexing problems of philosophy. In ten lucid essays James deals with such subjects as causality and free will, the definition of the good life and the Good itself, the importance of the individual in society, and the intellectual claims of scientific method. Linking all these essays, most of which were delivered as lectures to popular audiences, is James's deep belief that philosophy does not operate in a vacuum but is influenced by our passional and volitional natures. As Edward H. Madden points out in his substantial introduction, these essays, written over a span of seventeen years, represent not so much a fixed system of ideas as a patient searching, an organic development of James's thought in response to his own criticism and that of others. This is the sixth volume to be published in The Works of William James , an authoritative edition sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.

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简介：　　In China, Taoism has been as influential as Confucianism. 　　It was more influential than Confucianism in the time ofthe "Six 　　Dynasties"; viz., from the third to the sixth centuries. It was 　　at that time that the Taoistic classics had their best commenta- 　　tors. Wang Pi's "Commentaries on the Lao-tzll," and Kuo 　　Hsiang's "Commentaries on the Chuang-tzu," for instance, have 　　become classics themselves; 1 venture to say that some passages 　　of their "Commentaries" are even more illuminating than the 　　texts. 　　The sayings of Lao Tzu and the books of Chuang Tzu and 　　Lieh Tzu are usually regarded as the earlier classics of Taoism. 　　Lao Tzu's book is brief enough, yet in it he spoke about many 　　things. Sometimes his meaning is not clear, and opens up many 　　different interpretations. The authenticity of The Book of Lieh 　　Tzu (Lieh-tzu) as we possess it is much questioned. A great part 　　of the book is now regarded by most scholars as the production 　　ofthe "Six Dynasties." It is only in the Chuang-tzu that we have a 　　well-developed philosophy; and a great part of that book, especial- 　　ly the "inner chapters," is usually considered genuine. There 　　are also side branches of Taoism, the ultramaterialism and hedon- 　　ism of Yang Chu, for instance. But Chuang Tzu's philosophy 　　represents the main current of the Taoistic teaching. His book, 　　with Kuo Hsiang's "Commentaries," is the most important 　　literature of Taoism. 　　THEGENERAL VIEWPOINT AND THE 　　SIGNIFICANCE OF TAOISM 　　Before discussing Taoism in detail, it is better for us to 　　get familiar first with its general viewpoint. William James divid- 　　ed philosophers according to their temperament into two classes 　　- the "tough-minded" and the "tender-minded." The "tough- 　　minded" philosophers reduced mind to matter, the "higher" to 　　the "lower"; according to them, the world is materialistic (at 　　least nonspiritualistic), mechanistic, and deterministic. Man 　　is alien to the world, in which there is no God, no immortality, 　　no freedom. On the other hand, the "tender-minded" philoso- 　　phers reduced matter to mind, the "lower" to the "higher." 　　According to them, the world is spiritualistic, in which there is 　　God, immortality, and freedom; and man, though insignificant 　　he may appear to be, is inwardly connected with the whole. 　　These are really the two points of view to see the world. Science 　　takes the one point of view, religion, the other; the one is more 　　congenial to intellect, the other, to feeling. Because the two view- 　　points are different, science and religion are always in conflict. 　　And how to reconcile this conflict has become a problem in phi- 　　losophy. 　　In the history of philosophy, generally speaking, there were 　　mainly two ways to reconcile these two points of view. Some 　　philosophers (Kant, for instance) said that science is valid only 　　in the phenomenal world; beyond the phenomenal, there is the 　　noumenal world, whteh is not governed by the laws of science, 　　and is the place for God, immortality, and freedom. James, 　　Bergson, generally speaking, both took this view. We may call 　　it the pragmatic (in the broad sense of the word) point of view. 　　Other philosophers (Spinoza, for instance) fully accepted the 　　naturalistic conception of the universe, but in their system, by' 　　a peculiar combination, there is still place for God, immortality, 　　and freedom; man is still one with the universe, if only he can 　　"see things under the form of eternity." Thc so-called new 　　realism in contemporary philosophy seems also to take this view. 　　We may call this the neorealistic point of view. As we shall see, 　　Taoism also took this view. Some people said that Taoism is 　　naturalistic and scientific, while others said that it is mystic and 　　religious. In fact, it is both.　　

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简介：Dark Voices is the first sustained examination of the intellectual formation of W. E. B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of his masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk , and offering a new reading of his work from this period. Bringing to light materials from the Du Bois archives that have not been discussed before, Shamoon Zamir explores Du Bois's deep engagement with American and European philosophy and social science. He examines the impact on Du Bois of his studies at Harvard with William James and George Santayana, and shows how the experience of post-Reconstruction racism moved Du Bois from metaphysical speculation to the more instrumentalist knowledge of history and the new discipline of sociology, as well as toward the very different kind of understanding embodied in the literary imagination. Providing a new and detailed reading of The Souls of Black Folk in comparison with Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind , Zamir challenges accounts that place Du Bois alongside Emerson and James, or characterize him as a Hegelian idealist. This reading also explores Du Bois's relationship to African American folk culture, and shows how Du Bois was able to dramatize the collapse of many of his hopes for racial justice and liberation. The first book to place The Souls of Black Folk in its intellectual context, Dark Voices is a case study of African American literary development in relation to the broader currents of European and American thought.

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简介：From the vantage point of a dramatic moment in U.S. cultural history, this book examines the role of psychoanalysis, in particular, and the behavioral sciences, in general, in present-day psychological democracy. The intellectual pioneers Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, G. Stanley Hall and William James came together at one unique time in 1909 and engendered a climate that still endures. The work is a product of fifty years of research that began when the author was in his first teaching post at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. This was the scene in 1909, twenty-five years earlier, of the only visit of Freud to this country. He came with C. G. Jung, both invited by Clark鈥檚 President G. Stanley Hall who was planning the 20th anniversary celebration of his University. Twenty-seven other leading world scientists were also invited to lecture. William James, the father of American psychology, came from Harvard "to see what Freud was like" and to stay with Freud and Jung at Hall鈥檚 house. Thus the scions of psychoanalysis and of American psychology interacted on this special occasion. Sources not hitherto available have been utilized, e.g., Freud鈥檚 Travel Diary, on deposit in the restricted portion of the Freud archives of the Library of Congress. Similar sources have been utilized for the contributions of Jung, Hall and James. Through the approach of idiodynamics, unknown facts about the participants have also been discovered. By, examining the impact of Freud on James, an unrecognized romantic friendship during the last fifteen years of James鈥檚 life has been disclosed. Part One is written in a readable style for the general reader and is supplemented by a separate Commentary for the interested scholar. Part Two comprises the complete correspondence of Freud and Hall, made available here for the first time. Part Three presents a new translation of Freud鈥檚 five lectures at Clark on the origin and development of psychoanalysis. These lectures are still the best introduction (orbe

主流英语国际通用教程练习册.一

作者：  (美)Lesley Jones，(英)Paul Simon，(澳)William James编著

出版社：北京大学出版社,2008

简介：《主流英语国际通用教程:练习册1》和与之配套的《主流英语国际通用教程练习册》适合广大的英语学习者，不仅中国人可以学习，而且可以推广开来，面对世界上所有华人。裕丰教育产品特别适合有深入学习英语打算的高中生，大学生，社会在职人员，出国留学或公干人员以及各类英语考试者，掌握了产品的精华后，您将畅流双语世界，把握您的未来！

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 "What is truth?" has long been the philosophical question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in one volume the twentieth century's most influential philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes a balance between classic works and the leading edge of current philosophical research.The essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have? Thus the book discusses both traditional and deflationary theories of truth, as well as phenomenological, postmodern, and pluralist approaches to the problem. The essays are organized by theory. Each of the seven sections opens with a detailed introduction that not only discusses the essays in that section but relates them to other relevant essays in the book. Eleven of the essays are previously unpublished or substantially revised. The book also includes suggestions for further reading.Contributors Linda Mart铆n Alcoff, William P. Alston, J. L. Austin, Brand Blanshard, Marian David, Donald Davidson, Michael Devitt, Michael Dummett, Hartry Field, Michel Foucault, Dorothy Grover, Anil Gupta, Martin Heidegger, Terence Horgan, Jennifer Hornsby, Paul Horwich, William James, Michael P. Lynch, Charles Sanders Pierce, Hilary Putnam, W. V. O. Quine, F. P. Ramsey, Richard Rorty, Bertrand Russell, Scott Soames, Ernest Sosa, P. F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ralph C. Walker, Crispin Wright.   Publisher Summary 2 These essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have?  

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简介：Designed to overcome problems in hooking students on philosophy, Biffle (Crafton Hills College, CA) provides assistance throughout with: analyzing primary sources, complex writing tasks, and making the subject engaging via thoughts experiments and other interactive devices. The 26 chapters survey key early Greeks to Nietzsche, with philosophers from William James to Simone de Beauvoir sampled in an appended "modern reader." Includes a wisdom skills pretest with annotated answers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The contribution of rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism to postmodernist cultural politics.   Publisher Summary 2 The skeptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the pre-Socratic Sophists and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey, have attracted new attention in the context of postmodernist thought. At the same time there has been a more general renewal of interest in rhetoric itself. This book explores the various ways in which rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism overlap in their current theoretical and political implications, and demonstrates how they contribute both to a rethinking of the human sciences within the academy and to larger debates over cultural politics.  

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简介："It is absolutely the only philosophy with no humbug in it," an exhilarated William James wrote to a friend early in 1907. And later that year, after finishing the proofs of his "little book," he wrote to his brother Henry: "I shouldn't be surprised if ten years hence it should be rated as 'epoch-making,' for of the definitive triumph of that general way of thinking I can entertain no doubt whatever-I believe it to be something quite like the protestant reformation." Both the acclaim and outcry that greeted Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking helped to affirm James's conviction. For it was in Pragmatism that he confronted older philosophic methods with the "pragmatic" method, demanding that ideas be tested by their relation to life and their effects in experience. James's reasoning and conclusions in Pragmatism have exerted a profound influence on philosophy in this century, and the book remains a landmark.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane, including Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, and the less well-known fiction, newswriting, and poetry. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets out to explore the imaginative world Crane created in his total 艙uvre of fiction, poetry and reportage. Comparative and interdisciplinary methods, combined with insights from historians such as Toynbee and Hofsteader, enable Halliburton to shed light on a number of issues. These include Crane's interest in musicality, the importance of his poetry and journalism to his other writings, the phenomenology of his social structures, his mastery of prosody, and the relation of his writings to the ideas of thinkers such as William James, Santayana, Weber and Sartre. This ambitious and comprehensive book sets a standard by which to measure all future interpretations of Crane.   Publisher Summary 2 This ambitious and comprehensive book sets a standard by which to measure all future interpretations of Crane.