The Philosophy of William James
Channel: Let's Talk Philosophy
Date: 2021-06-09

William James came into the American Philosophical tradition during a time period where it yearned for an intellectual voice which it could call its own. It’s not that there were no other great philosophic minds present at the time of his ascension, but that no other carried within them, so genuinely, the American spirit. 

Here we will all but pass over the Psychology which he has been traditionally remember by and take a seat to learn why James is perhaps America’s most influential philosopher.

Music:
 “Where Stars Fall” – Scott Buckley

Sources:
Site 1: https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/james-a.pdf
Site 2: https://iep.utm.edu/james-o/
Site 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
Site 4: https://www.britannica.com/topic/radical-empiricism
Site 5: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/#Prag1907
Book 1: The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant

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