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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.

The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, in New York. They are printed as delivered, without developments or notes. The pragmatic movement, so-called—I do not like the name, but apparently it is too late to change it—seems to have rather suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. A number of tendencies that have always existed in philosophy have all at once become conscious of themselves collectively, and of their combined mission; and this has occurred in so many countries, and from so many different points of view, that much unconcerted statement has resulted. I have sought to unify the picture as it presents itself to my own eyes, dealing in broad strokes, and avoiding minute controversy. Much futile controversy might have been avoided, I believe, if our critics had been willing to wait until we got our message fairly out. Contents: Expanded Contents, Lecture I - The Present Dilemma in Philosophy, Lecture II - What Pragmatism Means, Lecture III - Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered, Lecture IV - The One and the Many, Lecture V - Pragmatism and Common Sense, Lecture VI - Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth, Lecture VII - Pragmatism and Humanism, Lecture VIII - Pragmatism and Religion.

In writing these “Talks” out, the author has gradually weeded out as much as possible of the analytical technicalities of the science. In their present form they contain a minimum of what is deemed “scientific” in psychology and are practical and popular in the extreme. “He combines, better than most writers, the thoroughly scientific with the truly practical, having something of value on every page for every teacher of every grade.” -L. H. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio “The psychology that forms the basis of the ‘Talks’ is presented in beautifully clear and simple English and well illustrated by examples drawn from the field of common observation. One can hardly help feeling as he reads that if psychology is not here shorn of its terrors for teachers, no other writer need hope to accomplish that task.” -The Dial “It is an admirable book – frank, suggestive, stimulating, like everything else the author has written.” -J. P. Gordy, Professor in Ohio State University, Columbus “James is a genius. His mental touch is quickening; his style grips attention; his thoughts teem with suggestion. He is a whole-souled, genial, witty man, as well as a great psychologist. A wizard at putting things.” -The Wooster Post-Graduate and Quarterly “A work of absorbing interest.” -Boston Transcript “His style has the quality of a communicable fervor, a clear, grave passion of sincerity and conviction.” -The Nation “When pedagogical libraries can show a preponderance of such books, they may well begin to rival the fiction departments in popularity.” -The Critic Table of Contents Preface Psychology and the Teaching Art The Stream of Consciousness The Child as a Behaving Organism Education and Behavior The Necessity of Reactions Native Reactions and Acquired Reactions What the Native Reactions are The Laws of Habit The Association of Ideas Interest Attention Memory The Acquisition of Ideas Apperception The Will Talks to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals

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William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.[5] James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".[6][7][8]