**"William James (1842-1910) was "a towering figure in the history
of American thought--without doubt the foremost psychologist this
country has produced." That was the opinion of Gordon Allport, a
Harvard professor and one-time president of the American
Psychological Association. However, few Americans living in this
third millennium have ever heard of James, despite the fact that
his profound insights into the human psyche are now more urgently
needed than ever before.
But before James' insights can once more become available, a
barrier to their reception must be removed. What barrier? James'
"productive paradoxes." That's what Allport charitably called them.
'They' were more than paradoxes, however. They were the pervasive
contradictions in James' thought. To rescue his insights from
entangling contradictions, the first step must be to draw attention
to common sense, the foundation of all 'scientific' learning.
James confessed that it was only in 1903, a few years before
his death, that he realized for the first time "the perfect
magnificence as a philosophical achievement" of our everyday,
common-sense thinking. This book draws together the threads of
James' ideas about such elements of common-sense as consciousness,
language, meaning, learning, space, time, and thought itself.
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