William James

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...

HJ 's elder brother became the philosopher and psychologist William James .

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This followed RPJ 's script for screening her own Heat and Dust, 1983. The film of The Bostonians was originally intended to conclude a series of five programmes for WGBH television of Boston...

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...

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...

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.

JEH had been considering Themis since about 1907, when she felt that recent archaeological, sociological, and other developments rendered her Prolegomena somewhat outdated. Her re-thought principles are heavily influenced by various writings by Nietzsche