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...
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:
(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.
The UAP-haunted world. Two Gifford lecturers would tell us we have nothing to fear open.substack.com/pub/philoliv...
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.
William James Society newsletter, spring/summer 2026
wjsociety.org/news/
A plug for WJ’s Varieties in Part 2 of the show (and for Carl Sagan’s in Part 1)
www.newschannel5.com/plus/issues-...
“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...
Does U.F.O. Disclosure Threaten Faith?-“if anomalous videos don’t yield anything except more hearsay they’ll let us hand the God-and-aliens debate back to Steven Spielberg and William James.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...
“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...
