“in the very gap between perceiving meaning everywhere and feeling it for yourself, you discover… a renewed consciousness of your own felt life, sharpened precisely because you have just seen how much of the world’s meaning you can recognize but not inhabit…” open.substack.com/pub/nyphilos...
I am now at liberty to be a reality, and the comfort is unspeakable—literally unspeakable, to be my own man, after 35 years of being owned by others. I can now live for truth pure and simple, instead of for truth accommodated to the most unheard-of requirements set by others.
Psychology is about amassing the vital conditions for living well… Philip Davis, William James (in the My Reading series, Oxford University Press, 2022)
The WILLIAM JAMES SOCIETY (WJS) would like to announce that it will be offering its annual WJS YOUNG SCHOLAR PRIZE to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought of James.The prize will include:
Submissions should be prepared in accordance with WJS manuscript submission guidelines. All papers must be submitted to WJS Secretary, Alexis Dianda, and received by September 15th, 2026. After the submissions have been considered by the prize committee, the winner will be announced in October.
Past WJS officer Paul Stob’s new book reviewed:
Was Phrenology Real? Ask the Lump on Your Forehead. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/b...
You can't tell how happy I am at having thrown off the nightmare of my "professorship." As a "professor" I always felt myself a sham, with its chief duties of being awalking encyclopedia of erudition…
William James Society newsletter, spring/summer 2026
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(1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the 2027 meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division in Boston, Massachusetts , (2) $600 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) the possibility of publishing the paper in William James Studies.
“I admire the Pragmatists’ courage in believing that it is still possible to make a difference, however slight.” american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-amer...
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I Am An American Philosopher: Roberta Dreon -An Interview Series with John Capps- “As a European philosopher belonging to a tradition that has developed refined forms of disenchantment toward…
