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FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTIONS ON     CT 25:  WILLIAM JAMES          Spring, 2010 

1.  In relation to William James, he examined & melded religion, pragmatism, psychology & more to answer ' ___________________________________________ ' 

2.  In relation to James on pragmatism,  ______________________________________  is judged in the usefulness or actual consequence of a thing or action 

3.  In relation to James on pragmatic truth, people create truth & truth is so much the result of human activity that James' view has been called  ___________________________________ 

4.  In relation to James on description, the simple logical inquiry which had been popular in phil for so long is, for James,  ______________________________________ 

5.  In relation to James on mind, mentality, consciousness, for James, all nerve centers have one essential function,  ______________________________________________ 

6.  In relation to James on mentality & thought,  _________________________________________  exists wherever we find the choice of means for the attainment of future ends 

7.  In relation to James on animal consciousness, humans are also subject to the 'behaviorist' relationship to  ____________________________________  , but we have the cognitive ability to foresee these negative & positive consequences w/o actually having to experience them 

8.  In relation to stream of consciousness, consciousness is like Hearclitus' ' ________________________________________  ,' i.e. it is constant flux 

9.  In relation to James & the consciousness of self, the spiritualists believe there is something in the stream that  ______________________________________________  its flow 

10.  In relation to James on impulses, in James' time, psych theorists posited an almost endless list of  ________________________________ 

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ESSAY QUESTION ON     CT 25:  WILLIAM JAMES          Spring, 2010 

Essays should be two, average length, hand written pages long.  Be sure & answer all parts of the question. 

2.  In relation to James on pragmatism, how does James define it?  Discuss.  What does he have to say about perspective?  consequences?  free will?  beliefs?  pragmatic truth?  truth & real life?  truth's authority?  transcendent truth?  degrees of truth?  truth as a useful invention?  the practicality of truth?  Finally, critiques James' view on pragmatism.  

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