• The William James Lectures are a series of invited lectureships at Harvard University sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, who alternate...
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    biological fitness. James's book of lectures on pragmatism is arguably the most influential book of American philosophy. The lectures inside depict his...
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  • statements." - How to Do Things with Words (1955): Lecture 1, page 1 footnote 1 The William James Lectures at Harvard University. Oxford at the Clarendon...
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  • The Varieties of Religious Experience (category Books by William James)
    Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the...
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    great chain of being : a study of the history of an idea : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933. Harvard University Press...
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    psychology departments at Harvard invited Oppenheimer to deliver the William James Lectures. An influential group of Harvard alumni led by Edwin Ginn that included...
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  • the fifth and sixth of his William James lectures on "Logic and Conversation", delivered at Harvard in 1967. These two lectures were initially published...
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  • society. Since 2004, this prestigious Lectures series has been organized, with the assistance of Board of the Boyle Lectures, by the International Society for...
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    William James Sidis (/ˈsaɪdɪs/; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for...
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    Pragmatism (category William James)
    more intelligent. John Dewey's Art as Experience, based on the William James lectures he delivered at Harvard University, was an attempt to show the integrity...
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    Nicod Prize in 2013, and has given the William James Lectures at Harvard University in 2012 and the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University in 2013, among...
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    year tutors included Sir William Hamilton, who lectured him on logic and metaphysics, Philip Kelland on mathematics, and James Forbes on natural philosophy...
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  • Doctor of Science (Honorary), University of Pennsylvania 1987 — William James Lectures, Harvard University 1989 — Award for Research Excellence, International...
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  • The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded...
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  • major writing on aesthetics, originally delivered as the first William James Lecture at Harvard (1932). Dewey's aesthetics have been found useful in...
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  • ISBN 0-684-83130-9 Austin, J. L. (1962). "How to Do Things with Words", The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. Oxford, Clarendon Press...
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  • The Gifford Lectures (/ˈɡɪfərd/) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four...
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  • three or six lectures by one speaker each semester. Archeologist James Henry Breasted delivered the first series of Messenger Lectures in 1925.[page needed]...
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    work was assembled in 1853, the book Lectures on Quaternions had "formed the subject of successive courses of lectures, delivered in 1848 and subsequent...
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    Croonian Lectures ON INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM". The Lancet. 172 (4430): 214–220. 1908. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)50353-5. "The Croonian Lectures ON PLAGUE"...
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  • Lectures at the British Library and the Sandars Lectures at Cambridge University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series...
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    popular science lectures: "The Eye and the Brain" "The Eye and Seeing" "The Brain and Thinking" "Of Boundaries in General" 1879. Lectures and Essays I &...
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  • Bishop James Madison Society (BJMS) is a secret society of the College of William & Mary in Virginia. The society is best known through its Last Lecture Series...
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  • bibliographical world." The Lyell Lectures are considered to be a major British bibliographical lecture series. The Papers of James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell are...
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    philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical...
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  • The Silliman Memorial lectures series has been published by Yale University since 1901. The lectures were established by the university on the foundation...
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  • the first Terry lectures were held. The lectures are free and open to the public. A single installment generally consists of four lectures by the same visiting...
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    Lectures on Aesthetics (LA; German: Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, VÄ) is a compilation of notes from university lectures on aesthetics given by Georg...
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    Rhys James (born Rhys William Jones, 30 April 1991) is a British stand-up comedian. James has appeared on Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo. James studied...
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    February 2023, Kaag delivered the lecture "William James and the Sick Soul" for Harvard Divinity School's William James Lectures on Religious Experience series...
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