The Letters of William James, Vol. 2James, William
Philosophy
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
James, William
Intellectuals -- United States; James, William, 1842-1910; Philosophers -- United States; Psychologists -- United States
JAMES, WILLIAM.
His ancestors in America, =1=, 1;
recurrence of his father's habit of thought in, 5 _n._;
and his mother, 9;
resemblance of, to his father, 10;
quoted, on his father, 13;
influence of his father's "idiom," 18 and _n._;
frequent changes of schools and tutors, 19;
in Europe, 1855 to 1858, 19;
at the Collège de Boulogne, and the "Academy" of Geneva, 20;
quoted, on his education, 20;
interest in exact knowledge, 20;
begins study of anatomy at Geneva, 21;
his cosmopolitanism of consciousness, 22;
widely read in three languages, 22;
effect of his early training, 22;
takes up painting, 22-24;
portrait of Katharine Temple, 24;
physique, personal appearance and dress, 24, 25;
temperament and conversation, 26;
"smiting" quality of his best talk, 27;
keen about new things, 28;
disadvantage
of being too encouraging to "little geniuses," 28, 29;
freer criticism of those who had arrived, 29;
influence as a teacher at Harvard, 29, 30;
in Lawrence Scientific School, 31 and _n._;
physical condition keeps him out of army in Civil War, 47;
transfers from Chemistry to Comparative Anatomy, 47;
and Jeffries Wyman, 48, 49;
begins course at Medical School, 53;
philosophy begins to beckon, 53;
joins Agassiz's expedition to the Amazon, 54;
his nine months with Agassiz not wasted, 55, 56;
has small-pox at Rio, 60, 61, 63 and _n._;
interne at Mass. General Hospital, 71;
again in Medical School, 71-84.
Impaired health causes his visit to Germany, 84, 85;
in Dresden, Berlin and Teplitz, 85, 86;
describes his condition in letter to his father, 95, 96;
returns to U. S., 139;
takes degree of M.D. (1869), 140;
eye-weakness, 140, 141;
scope of his reading, 141, 142 and _n._, 143;
his note-books, 143, 144;
relation between earlier and later writings, 144 and _n._;
morbid depression, 145;
chapter on the "sick soul" the story of his own case, 145-147;
return of resolution and self-confidence, 147, 148;
Instructor in Physiology, 165;
his real subject, physiological psychology, 165, 166;
his deepest inclination always toward philosophy, 166;
H. James, Senior's, letter on the change in =J.='s mental tone
and outlook, 169, 170;
decides to devote himself to biology, 171;
Europe again, 171;
end of the period of morbid depression, 171;
gives course in Psychology and organizes Psychological Laboratory,
179 and _n_,;
contributions to periodicals, 180;
on teaching of philosophy in American colleges, 189 _ff._
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