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  1. James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments.Shawn Simpson - 2023 - Metaphilosophy 54 (1):134-144.
    The relationship between American pragmatism and logical empiricism is complicated at best. The received view is that by around the late 1930s or early 1940s pragmatism had been replaced, supplanted, or eclipsed by the younger and more logic-oriented form of empiricism developed in interwar Vienna. Recently, however, this picture has been challenged, and this paper offers further reasons for thinking that the received view is inadequate. Through a critical examination of William James's Pragmatism and “The Sentiment of Rationality” and Rudolf (...)
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  • William James and Swami Vivekananda: Their Relationship and the Conceptual Resemblance of Vedānta and Pragmatism.Chris Zajner - 2021 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 38 (3):277-296.
    William James considered Swami Vivekananda the paragon of monists. Yet he comes to reject Vivekananda's philosophy as a result of monism's ineluctable philosophical conundrums and because it ultimately did not suit his active temperament. James's simplified assessment of Vivekananda's philosophy, however, reveals he had only a limited understanding of Vedānta. It can be speculated that James's understanding of Vedānta was mainly the aspect of rāja yoga (the science of psychic control)—which is evinced by the fact that he disagrees with what (...)
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