He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

The defendant, William L. Stickney 3, 23, of 3211 Park pl., Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic school each Tuesday night for one month.

The superb intellectual and spiritual vitality of William James was never more evident than in his letters.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

James William Johnson believes that Swift saw major similarities between the two situations.

Its earliest members included noted scientists like William Crookes, and philosophers such as Henry Sidgwick and William James.

Scientists who have worked in this area include Raymond Moody, Susan Blackmore, Charles Tart, William James, Ian Stevenson, Michael Persinger and Pim van Lommel among others.

* 1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Along with James II's perceived despotism, his religion was the main cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the previous linked religious and succession problems solved by the joint monarchy of William and Mary.

With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

One most fundamental question that continues to exercise philosophers is put by William James:

It was named after him by his friends and fellow Philadelphians, botanists James and William Bartram.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

General Kearny, passing nearby on his way to California after his recent conquest of Santa Fe, learned of the raid and sent a note to Col. William Doniphan, his second-in-command in Santa Fe.

William Cooke and Professor Charles Wheatstone learned of the Wilhelm Weber and Carl Gauss electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, and reached the stage of launching a commercial telegraph prior to Morse, despite starting later.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin ; which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge.

Freeman convinced Evans ' tutors, George Kitchen and John Richard Green, and they convinced the Regius professor, William Stubbs, that, in view of his special other knowledge and interests, and his father's " high standing in learned society ," Evans should not only be passed, but receive a first.

In Orléans, one of the pre-eminent centres of classical studies, he read ancient Roman literature ( known simply as " the Authors ") with Hilary of Orléans, and learned mathematics (" especially Euclid ") with William of Soissons.

William of Malmesbury's view that " no one more just or more learned ever governed the kingdom " has been endorsed by modern historians.

Toklas and Stein returned to Paris in June 1916, and acquired a Ford automobile with the help of associates in the United States ; Gertrude learned to drive it with the help of her friend William Edwards Cook.

Mikimoto did not know that government biologist Tokishi Nishikawa and a carpenter, Tatsuhei Mise, had each spent time in Australia and learned the secret to spherical pearl production from expatriate British marine biologist William Saville-Kent — inserting a piece of oyster epithelial membrane ( the lip of mantle tissue ) with a nucleus of shell or metal into an oyster's body or mantle causes the tissue to form a pearl sack.

Since, according to the learned researches of Sir William Jones, Odin and Buddha are probably the same person, it is curious to see the names of Bondvar, Wodansdag, and Votan designating in India, Scandinavia, and in Mexico the day of a brief period.

The chronicler further claimed that when Thomas FitzStephen came to the surface after the sinking and learned that William Adelin had not survived, he let himself drown rather than face the King.

Chicago publisher William D. Boyce learned about Scouting during a visit to London in 1909.

Thus, the leaders of the big railroads finally learned the source of William Nelson Page's deep pockets.

The Lord of the Castle, Sir William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, learned of this and came up with a clever plot where one man sneaked into the castle and threw open the gates, allowing Lord Douglas to seize it.

The English began a counter-attack, but William Wallace learned of the battle and came to the rescue.

At the same time that this treaty was received in Washington, Pierce learned that New Mexico Territorial Governor William C. Lane had issued a proclamation claiming the Mesilla Valley as part of New Mexico, leading to protests from Mexico.

See below for a fuller description and history, until the reforms of the 19th century, written by Sir William Blackstone and edited by other learned lawyers of the period.

Henry had belatedly learned of William of Wykeham's 1379 twin foundation of New College, Oxford and Winchester College, and wanted his own achievements to surpass those of Wykeham.

Indeed William may well have been the most learned man in twelfth-century Western Europe.

For this vivid descriptive history of abbeys and bishoprics, dwelling upon the lives of the English prelates saints, notably the learned wonder-working Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury, William travelled widely in England.

Remember, therefore, all the fine things that your jurists and statesmen have said and written about the great palladium of British liberty and so forth: remember how the learned Sir William Blackstone hath delivered himself on this point ;— how that ' the founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his ( the accused person's ) equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion.

He also took an interest in classical philosophy and of philosophers like William James, from whom he learned that " pragmatism " was more valuable in life than " abstraction.

Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, are known as the founders of pragmatism.

Defined and named by William Ernest Hocking, this variation is known as " negative pragmatism ".

Charles Sanders Peirce ( and his pragmatic maxim ) deserves most of the credit for pragmatism, along with later twentieth century contributors William James and John Dewey.

Although Santayana was not a pragmatist in the mold of William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, or John Dewey, The Life of Reason arguably is the first extended treatment of pragmatism written.

William James 1842 – 1910 Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller | F. C. S. Schiller 1863 – 1937 It is sometimes stated that James ' and other philosophers ' use of the word pragmatism so dismayed Peirce that he renamed his own variant pragmaticism.

Mead is a major American philosopher by virtue of being, along with John Dewey, Charles Peirce and William James, one of the founders of pragmatism.

* The American pragmatism of William James, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey.

William James ' hypothesis of pragmatism stems from the efficacy of religion.

Throughout his life, Scheler entertained a strong interest in the philosophy of American pragmatism ( Eucken corresponded with William James ).

Charles Sanders Peirce ( and his pragmatic maxim ) deserves most of the credit for pragmatism, along with later twentieth century contributors William James and John Dewey.

In his pointedly-titled 1917 essay " Twilight of Idols " he invoked the progressive pragmatism of Dewey's contemporary William James to argue that America was using democracy as an end to justify the war, but that democracy itself was never examined.

In the book The Educational Philosophy of William T. Harris by Richard D. Mosier, it is stated that Harris forms the bridge between the mechanism, associationism, and utilitarianism of the 18th century and the pragmatism, experimentalism, and instrumentalism of the 20th century.

His In Defense of Philosophy attacks, in their relationship to science, empiricist philosophies of many kinds, such as those of Rudolf Carnap ( linguistic analysis ) and William James ( pragmatism ), on the " materialist " grounds that they divorce science and scientific investigation from the search for truer understanding of the really existing universe.

" This essay was claimed by William James as instrumental in the foundation of the philosophical school of pragmatism.

Other important early contributors to the field include Hermann Ebbinghaus ( a pioneer in the study of memory ), William James ( the American father of pragmatism ), and Ivan Pavlov ( who developed the procedures associated with classical conditioning ).

The foundation of the progressive tendency was rooted in the uniquely American philosophy of pragmatism, which was primarily developed by John Dewey and William James

DST is inspired by two thinkers in particular, William James and Mikhail Bakhtin, who worked in different countries ( USA and Russia, respectively ), in different disciplines ( psychology and literary sciences ), and in different theoretical traditions ( pragmatism and dialogism ).

While owing much to Peirce and William James ( between whose thought he was one of the first to distinguish ), he also acknowledged the influence of Plato and George Berkeley ( both of whom he saw as important precursors of, or influences on, pragmatism ), Gottfried Leibniz, Victoria Welby-Gregory G. E.

Fins ' scholarship in medical ethics and health policy has focused on palliative care, rational approaches to ethical dilemmas and the development of " clinical pragmatism " as a method of moral problem-solving drawing upon the American pragmatic tradition of William James and John Dewey.

While he was personally closer to his old friends Paget and Petre than to William Cecil, Mason's opposition to the secretary's intervention in Scotland and the Newhaven ( Le Havre ) expedition owed more to his pragmatism than to factional politics.