June 18: Introduction: James’s life and Background

“Personal Depression and Recovery” (3-8), “The Present Dilemma of Philosophy” (362-376), “The Sick Soul” (online)

June 20:   Psychology and Philosophy I: Habit and the Stream of Thought

“The Stream of Thought” (21-74), “Habit” (9-21)

June 25: Psychology and Philosophy II: Conceptions and the A Priori

“Conception” (online),  “Necessary Truths and the Effects of Experience” (74-133)

June 27: Rationality, Belief and Faith I

“Remarks on Spencer’s Definition of Mind as Correspondence” (online),  “The Sentiment of Rationality” (317-345),

C. S. Peirce: “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities”, “The Fixation of Belief” (online)

July 2: Rationality, Belief and Faith II

“The Will to Believe” (717-735),  “Faith and the Right to Believe” (735-740), “The Dilemma of Determinism” (587-610)

July 4: Pragmatism Meaning

C. S. Peirce: “How to Make our Ideas Clear”, “The Doctrine of Chances”

“Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results”(345-362), “What Pragmatism Means” [first part], “Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered” (390-405).

July 9: Pragmatism and Reference

“Review of Royce’s The Religious Aspect of Philosophy” (online), “The Function of Cognition” (136-152), “The Essence of Humanism” (304-310), “Tigers in India” (online), “The Relation between Knower and Known” (online), Letter to Renouvier (online)

July 11:  Pragmatism  and Truth I: Belief and the Nature of Truth

“What Pragmatism Means” [second part], “Pragmatism and Common Sense” (418-429), “Pragmatism’s Conception of truth” (429-443), “Pragmatism and Humanism” (449-461), “[Pragmatism and Radical Empiricism]” (311-317), “A Dialogue” (443-448),   “Interview in [The] New York Times, 1907” (448-449), “Notes from James’s 1908 Harvard discussion of Pragmatism” (online)

July 16: Pragmatism  and Truth II: Conceptions and Truth

“Percept and Concept – The Import of Concepts, The Abuse of Concepts, Some Corollaries” (232-258), “The Compounding of Consciousness”, “Bergson and His Critique of Intellectualism”

July 18: Ethics and Religion I: Ethics 

“The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life” (610-629), “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings”, “What makes Life Significant”, “The Moral Equivalent of War”

July 23: Ethics and Religion II: Religion

“[Experience and Religion: A comment]” (740-741), “Circumscription of the [Religious] Topic” (741-758), Conclusion & Postscript to The Varieties of Religious Experience (758-787), “Pragmatism and Religion” (461-70), “Faith and the Right to Believe” (735-740), “Answers to Pratt Questionair on Religious Belief” (online).

July 25: Radical Empiricism,  Reception, and Legacy

“Radical Empiricism: 1897” (134-136), “Radical Empiricism: 1909” (136), “Does Consciousness Exist”, “How Two Minds Can know One thing”, “A World of Pure Experience” (194-214), “The Knowing of Things Together”(152-169).