I. Growing up zigzag: Art is my vocation Newport and the Jameses The father Harvard, 1861 Science and the Civil War Comparative anatomy and medical school The gulls at the mouth of the Amazon Tea squalls and a life according to nature We must be our own providence A dead and drifting life Minnie Temple William James, M.D. Treading water The end of youth II. The action of consciousness: Hitting bottom Turning to physiology The Metaphysical Club and Chauncey Wright Charles Pierce Cambridge and Harvard, 1872 Teaching To Europe and back Emerson, Mill, and Blood From physiology to physiological psychology Days of rapture and heartbreak The trouble with Herbert Spencer The action of consciousness III. The principles of Psychology: Spaces The heart wants its chance The feeling of effort Hegel in Cambridge Death of a mother Goodbye, my sacred old father The wonderful stream of our consciousness Not a simple temperament What is an emotion? The literary remains of Henry James Sr. The death of Herman Mrs. Leonora Piper My only absolutely satisfying companion (Alice) Hypnotism and summers at Chocorua Instinct and will Santayana at Harvard The psychology of belief Reunion with Alice: the hidden self
IV. The varieties of religious experience: Response to "Principles" and the moral philosopher
Sarah, Rosina, and Pauline
The logic of the absolute
The religion of healthy-mindedness
The sick soul: slouching toward Edinburgh
V. The Philosopher: William James at 60
The Ph.D. Octopus and John Dewey's New School
The modern moment: radical empiricism
Schiller versus Bradley versus James
Royce: pragmatic stirrings
A general theory of human action
The Harvard elective system applied to the universe
The true race of prophets
Psychical researches redux
