... observational assumptions, the way in which this was a response to William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912), and, finally, why Howells ultimately went back on his attempt to create a Kodak school in fiction. © 2010 by The Regents of the University of California William Dean Howells...

... challenge to the interlocking absolutisms of traditional ethics and contemporary scientific racism. 2008 by The Regents of the University of California 2008 William Dean Howells An Imperative Duty Pragmatism scientific racism William James Racial Duties: Toward a Pragmatist Ethic of Race...

...John Tessitore Although Neo-Pragmatist scholars have long considered Walt Whitman an intellectual and literary forebear to William James and the American Pragmatic tradition, James believed Whitman to be a far more problematic thinker than has been acknowledged. Haunting much of James's writings...