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Doug's Pre-review Commentary, including connections to William James Sidis.
James juxtaposes, to show great advantages of, his own philosophy over several classical ISMs. We offer a simple table of what we call ISM Extremes to help you see interrelationships among various 'classicisms' James considers in his work. Our table contains a green column which distinguishes James, Pirsig, Bergson, et al., from classicists.
OK, here is our review, with hyperlinks to individual parts of James' Some Problems of Philosophy:
Dedication | To Charles Renouvier, page v |
Our page breaks do not align perfectly with James' text. In some cases we move whole sentences or paragraphs forward or backward at page boundaries to keep his thought and our review of it contiguous in a page window. We retain James' gender bias. We see it as a reminder of classical SOMthink, CTMs, where male and female are a pure dichotomy with male presumed in a classical and inappropriately dominant vis-à-vis equal role. Ancient stuff, no? Unless we say so, assume italics and other emphasis is James' own. |
Introduction | By Ellen Kappy Suckiel, page vii | |
Prefatory Note | By Henry James, Jr., page xiii-xiv | |
Chapter I | Philosophy and Its Critics, page 3 | |
Chapter II | The Problem of Metaphysics, page 29 (Reformatted and extended Question and Answer Table. Released page constraints. Doug - 30Apr2006.) | |
Chapter III | The Problem of Being, page 38 | |
Chapter IV | Percept and Concept The Import of Concepts, page 47 | |
Chapter V | Percept and Concept The Abuse of Concepts, page 75 (Updated comments on at least two pages; add a graphic and several links. Doug - 12Jan2007.) | |
Chapter VI | Percept and Concept Some Corollaries, page 98 | |
Chapter VII | The One and the Many, page 113 | |
Chapter VIII | The One and the Many (continued) Values and Defects, page 135 | |
Chapter IX | The Problem of Novelty, page 147 | |
Chapter X | Novelty and the Infinite The Conceptual View, page 154 | |
Chapter XI | Novelty and the Infinite The Perceptual View, page 166 | |
Chapter XII | Novelty and Causation The Conceptual View, page 189 | |
Chapter XIII | Novelty and Causation The Perceptual View, page 208 | |
Appendix | Faith and the Right to Believe, page 221 | |
Index | page 233 |
Thank you for reading,
Doug.