An official letter reporting the unauthorized Ph.D. examination at Harvard University of Mary Whiton Calkins records the anomalous position which women have occupied in philosophy from the beginning.
THE PROBLEM OF THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL IN ITS RELATION TO ETHICS The word freedom has many meanings. When we say that a stream is not free to flow because ...
A brief history of my opinions.--Tradition and practice.--The genteel tradition in American philosophy.--The moral background.--William James.--Josiah Royce.--Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics.--The genteel tradition at bay.--English liberty in America.--A letter to Logan Pearsall Smith.--America's young radicals.--Marginal notes on civilization in the United States.--Americanism.--From Dominations and powers.--What is a Philistine?--The elements and function of poetry.--Emerson.--Emerson the poet.--Walt Whitman: a dialogue.--The poetry of barbarism II: Walt Whitman.--Genteel American poetry.--A marginal note.--Letters.
CHAPTER TITLE AND SUBJECT OF THIS BOOK The words Dominations and Powers, here taken for a title, are not meant to be synonymous and the reduplication ...
The moral background.--The academic environment.--William James.--Josiah Royce.--Later speculations.--Materialism and idealism in American life.--English liberty in America.
This work contains five essays on modern philosophy entitled: Locke and the Frontiers of Common Sense; Fifty Years of British Idealism; Revolutions in Science; ...
Little essays on human nature.--Little essays on religion.--Little essays on art and poetry.--Little essays on poets and philosophers.--Little essays on materialism and morals.
The intellectual temper of the age.--Modernism and Christianity.--The philosophy of M. Henri Bergson.--The philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell.--Shelley: or, The poetic value of revolutionary principles.--The general tradition in American philosophy.
i THE INTELLECTUAL TEMPER OF THE AGE The present age is a critical one and interesting to live in. The civilisation characteristic of Christendom has not ...
