William James came into the American Philosophical tradition during a time period where it yearned for an intellectual voice which it could call its own. It’s not that there were no other great philosophic minds present at the time of his ascension, but that no other carried within them, so genuinely, the American spirit.

Here we will all but pass over the Psychology which he has been traditionally remember by and take a seat to learn why James is perhaps America’s most influential philosopher.

Music: “Where Stars Fall” – Scott Buckley

Sources: Site 1: https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/articles/james-a.pdf Site 2: https://iep.utm.edu/james-o/ Site 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James Site 4: https://www.britannica.com/topic/radical-empiricism Site 5: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/#Prag1907 Book 1: The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant

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