Some Problems of Philosophy


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For several years before his death Professor William James cherished the purpose of stating his views on certain problems of metaphysics in a book addressed particularly to readers of philosophy. He began the actual writing of this 'introductory text-book for students in metaphysics,' as he once called it, in March, 1909, and to complete it was at last his dearest ambition. But illness, and other demands on his diminished strength, continued to interfere, and what is now published is all that he had succeeded in writing when he died in August, 1910. - Summary by Henry James, Jr.

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Chapter I - Philosophy and Its Critics 32:14 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter II - The Problems of Metaphysics 10:55 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter III - The Problem of Being 11:25 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter IV - Percept and Concept - The Import of Concepts 33:59 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter V - Percept and Concept - The Abuse of Concepts 28:56 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter VI - Percept and Concept - Some Corollaries 17:54 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter VII - The One and the Many 26:56 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter VIII - The One and the Many (Continued) - Values and Defects 14:03 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter IX - The Problem of Novelty 9:17 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter X - Novelty and the Infinite - The Conceptual View 15:16 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter XI - Novelty and the Infinite - The Perceptual View 29:10 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter XII - Novelty and Causation - The Conceptual View 26:02 Read by P. J. Taylor
Chapter XIII - Novelty and Causation - The Perceptual View 16:02 Read by P. J. Taylor
Appendix - Faith and the Right to Believe 15:38 Read by P. J. Taylor

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