He rebutted the moralist views of W.K. Clifford in an essay which categorizes live, forced, and momentous options.
He rebutted the moralist views of W.K. Clifford in an essay which categorizes live, forced, and momentous options. He's the first namesake of a theory which states that emotions result from the perception of a physiological stimulus, rather than emotions preceding autonomic responses. One of his essays asks whether a man chasing a squirrel around a tree is by definition "going round" the squirrel. This author of "The Will to Believe" and The Principles of Psychology argued that "truth" is only what is most expedient to believe. He collected his Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh as The Varieties of Religious Experience, and his Lowell lectures were collected as a work which shares its name with a movement started by C.S. Peirce. For 10 points, name this American philosopher who wrote Pragmatism.
He rebutted the moralist views of W.K. Clifford in an essay which categorizes live, forced, and momentous options.
William James