Pragmatism and Other Writings

Further reading

  • James Sloan Allen, ed., William James on Habit, Will, Truth, and the Meaning of Life (2014). Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, ISBN 978-1-929490-45-5
  • Margo Bistis, "Remnant of the Future: William James' Automated Utopia", in Norman M. Klein and Margo Bistis, The Imaginary 20th Century (Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2016).
  • Émile Boutroux, William James (New York, 1912)
  • Werner Bloch, Der Pragmatismus von James und Schiller nebst Exkursen über Weltanschauung und über die Hypothese (Leipzig, 1913)
  • K. A. Busch, William James als Religionsphilosoph (Göttingen, 1911)
  • Jacques Barzun. A Stroll with William James (1983). Harper and Row: ISBN 0-226-03869-6
  • Deborah Blum. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (2006). Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-090-4
  • Wesley Cooper. The Unity of William James's Thought (2002). Vanderbilt University Press, ISBN 0-8265-1387-5
  • Howard M. Feinstein. Becoming William James (1984). Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8642-5
  • Théodore Flournoy, La Philosophie de William James (Saint-Blaise, 1911)
  • Sergio Franzese, The Ethics of Energy. William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus, Ontos Verlag, 2008
  • Sergio Franzese & Felicitas Krämer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience. Cross-perspectives on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought XII, 2007
  • Peter Hare, Michel Weber, James K. Swindler, Oana-Maria Pastae, Cerasel Cuteanu (eds.), International Perspectives on Pragmatism, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
  • James Huneker, "A Philosophy for Philistines" in The Pathos of Distance (New York, 1913).
  • Henry James, A Small Boy and Others (1913) and Notes of a Son and Brother (1914).
  • Amy Kittelstrom, The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition. New York: Penguin, 2015.
  • H. V. Knox, Philosophy of William James (London, 1914).
  • R. W. B. Lewis The Jameses: A Family Narrative (1991) Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Louis Menand. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001). Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52849-7.
  • Ménard, Analyse et critique des principes de la psychologie de W. James (Paris, 1911) analyzes the lives and relationship between James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.
  • Gerald E. Myers. William James: His Life and Thought (1986). Yale University Press, 2001, paperback: ISBN 0-300-08917-1. Focuses on his psychology; includes 230 pages of notes.
  • Giuseppe Sergi L'origine dei fenomeni psichici e loro significazione biologica, Milano, Fratelli Dumolard, 1885.
  • Giuseppe Sergi Principi di Psicologie: Dolore e Piacere; Storia Naturale dei Sentimenti, Milano, Fratelli Dumolard, 1894.
  • James Pawelski. The Dynamic Individualism of William James (2007). SUNY press, ISBN 0-7914-7239-6.
  • R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies (New York, 1912)
  • Robert D. Richardson. William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (2006). Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-43325-2
  • Robert D. Richardson, ed. The Heart of William James (2010). Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-05561-2
  • Robert D. Richardson. Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (2023). ISBN 978-0691224305
  • Jane Roberts. The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The View of William James (1978. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-018515-9.)
  • Barbara Ross, chapter "William James: A Prime Mover of the Psychoanalytic Movement in America", in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and the New England Medical Scene: 1894-1944 (Science History Publications, New York, 1978) ISBN 9780882021690
  • Josiah Royce, William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life (New York, 1911)
  • J. Michael Tilley, "William James: Living Forward and the Development of Radical Empiricism," In Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy: Anglophone Philosophy, edited by Jon Stewart, 2012, Ashgate Publishing, 87–98.
  • Linda Simon. Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998). Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN 0-226-75859-1
  • Emma K. Sutton. William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician (2023). ISBN 978-0226828985
  • Michel Weber. Whitehead's Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications. Ontos Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-386838-103-0
  • Michel Weber, "On Religiousness and Religion. Huxley's Reading of Whitehead's Religion in the Making in the Light of James' Varieties of Religious Experience", Jerome Meckier and Bernfried Nugel (eds.), Aldous Huxley Annual. A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, Volume 5, Münster, LIT Verlag, March 2005, pp. 117–32.
  • Michel Weber, "James's Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness", in Sergio Franzese & Felicitas Krämer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience. Cross-perspectives on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, Process Thought XII, 2007, pp. 7–37.
  • Richard Wiseman (2012). Rip it Up: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life. London, UK: Macmillan

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