William James (1842–1910) argued for a philosophy of democracy and pluralism that advocates individual and collective responsibility for our social arrangemen

Philosopher and psychologist William James was the best known and most influential American thinker of his time. The five books and nineteen essays collected in

Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers

At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. S

Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence o