William James , he interrupts himself, referred incessantly to the soul in his conversation, but banished the word from his physiology.
William James was not just interested in flow.
William James was a medical doctor who became one of the first psychologist in America by the turn of the 20th century
William James is very important to me, and I'll say a word about Dewey.
William James , who was a fan of Addams's-- and they were in a mutual admiration society, I guess-- William James talks about this as overcoming a certain
William James , one of the founders of American psychology, wrote a book called "Varieties of Religious Experience" were he cataloged all these sorts of experiences and he noted
William James had rebuked the quote 'scroundel logic' un-quote that calculates divine provenance from one's own little goody bag of gains,
Psychologist William James argued in 1884 that emotions must originate in the body.
And William James was looking at all of these experiences, sort of what's known as the ecstatic spectrum, and he said, wow, you know, whatever
And William James -- you know it was ripped from the headlines-- and William James asked what does philosophy have to say to this?
It self consciously echoes William James 's reflex action and theism.
Or in William James 's words-- "Truth happens to an idea.
A guy named William James wrote a book called "The Varieties of Religious Experience," specifically the chapter of mysticism-- he gave it all to me.
That's why as William James said, the father really of American psychology, "The education of attention would be an education par excellence."
that's what the philosopher William James would call a dead belief to me.
And what we discovered is that William James was totally right.
And I'm going to quote William James who was the great Harvard philosopher and psychologist.
It was actually a misinterpretation of William James .
And my apartment was just a few blocks from William James Hall, but I said, sure.
And it comes basically straight out of the mouth of William James -- 1890, William James , Harvard psychologist,
in a book by uh a colleague of William James his name was Josiah Roy called The Beloved Community the Beloved Community
This is something William James a long time ago writing about the mystical experience called the noetic sense.
radicals was getting to marinade in the thought and the work of William James does that name mean anything to anybody
term, but the reason it came about 100 years ago is because the great psychologist William James pointed out that, you know, if you take a piece of
And that science also dates back to roughly the same person, William James .
And one of the bits of research that we did is everybody and their mother, from William James forward, has a way of defining altered states
And cephalopods are sort of with the second group, they're with William James , a sort of individualist style.
when we watch it or when we hear it and here again uh it helps to think about William James nothing is made
Or even better, that the stages we travel through are more like those that the philosopher William James proposed.
By the turn of the century, Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James was looking at the state.
If you read the opening pages of "Pragmatism", one of William James ' key works, he tells a story,
We also need a solid grounding in theology, religious history and what William James called "the varieties of religious experience."
and Mysticism , Pascal's Wager , and William James ' Argument from Pragmatism .
This is William James ' definition of
So this is William James ' definition.
For the rest of us, if you leave philosophers aside, if you look at how William James -- William James was a great American psychologist and physician
I've also discovered, though, that many wise people have said something rather similar-- people like William James , Arthur C. Clarke, Elbert Hubbard.
And just like, he says, if the driver came to Cambridge and saw William James sitting in his room reading his book,
One other response, the kind of philosophy I studied was really in the school of pragmatism, William James .
Shakespeare, Hume, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, William James , and Henri Bergson.