The Principles of Psychology. 2 vols. 8vo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1890. Psychology: Briefer Course. 12mo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1892. The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. 12mo. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1897. Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine. 16mo. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1898. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals. 12mo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1899. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1902. Pragmatism. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1907. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to Pragmatism. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1909. A Pluralistic Universe. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1909. Memories and Studies. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1911. Some Problems in Philosophy. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1911. Essays in Radical Empiricism. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1912. Collected Essays and Reviews. 8vo. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1920. Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James. 8vo. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1920. Letters of William James. Edited, with Biographical Introduction and Notes, by his son, Henry James. Illustrated. 2 vols. Boston: the Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc. 1920. The Literary Remains of Henry James. tion, by William James. With Portrait. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1885. Edited, with an introducCrown 8vo. $2.00. Boston: Habit. 16mo. New York. Selections Henry Holt & Co. 1890. On Some of Life's Ideals. 16mo. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1899, 1900. TALKS TO TEACHERS NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900 BY WILLIAM JAMES Tahr F.4. (Mad.3) qurft. PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO. (INC.) BOSTON 08.9-233,01). PREFACE. IN 1892 I was asked by the Harvard Corporation to give a few public lectures on psychology to the Cambridge teachers. The talks now printed form the substance of that course, which has since then been delivered at various places to various teacher-audiences. I have found by experience that what my hearers seem least to relish is analytical technicality, and what they most care for is concrete practical application. So I have gradually weeded out the former, and left the latter unreduced; and now, that I have at last written out the lectures, they contain a minimum of what is deemed 'scientific' in psychology, and are practical and popular in the extreme. Some of my colleagues may possibly shake their heads at this; but in taking my cue from what has seemed to me to be the feeling of the audiences I believe that I am shaping my book so as to satisfy the more genuine public need. Teachers, of course, will miss the minute divisions, subdivisions, and definitions, the lettered and numbered headings, the variations of type, and all the 429987 |