William James

Although GS did not graduate from high school and she lacked the Latin requirements to pass the university's entrance exams, she nevertheless managed to persuade the Academic Board of her serious desire to pursue higher...

GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...

This scientific article was Stein's first published writing. It reported on laboratory experiments designed for William James 's graduate seminar in psychology. GS and Leon Solomons asked their subjects to read a story while writing...

She commented that Cézanne was also a great influence on her because he conceived the idea that in composition one thing was as important as another thing.She used these ideas to create a...

Reviewers of GS saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration, and William James wrote to tell her that it was...

MS published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler , Henri Bergson , William James , Bertrand Russell , and others.

The review, published in The Egoist, applied William James 's term to describe a style of writing that follows the inner rather than the outer life and time of a character.

In a review of DR 's first three novels, published in the Little Review and The Egoist in April 1918, May Sinclair used the label stream of consciousness to describe Richardson's technique. Sinclair borrowed the...

LOM was back in Lausanne to begin psychological treatment (management for stress and severe headache pain) with Dr Roger Vittoz , whose techniques had been praised by William James and Joseph Conrad .

LOM 's passion for creative gatherings was fostered on visits she made to the the home of Ethel Sands and Nan Hudson at Newington in Oxfordshire. She was deeply inspired by its lively intellectual...

MM attended the Metzger Institute, the private girls' school where her mother was a teacher, then took her BA in 1908 at a women's college, Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania. She followed that with...

The influence of this book was far-reaching. John Lienhard traces it through works by J. L. Comstock (himself an editor of Marcet, whose books shap[ed] America), and Dionysius Lardner (who in turn influenced the...

In this volume, which brings together shorter publications from earlier years, the authors attempted a map of psychological and physiological responses to art. According to their thesis statement, Aesthetics, if treated by the method of...

VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...

One of her main subjects here is William James (recently deceased), whose theory of and experiments in pragmatism—particularly his emphasis on the will to believe—Lee disputes in favour of those explored by Charles Sanders Peirce