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Article: The Correspondence of William James, Volume 12: April 1908-August 1910
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
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- July 1, 2005
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LITERARY STUDIES The Correspondence of William James, Volume 12: April 1908-August 1910, edited by lgnas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley. Virginia, January 2005. $95
The study of philosophy occupied the last quarter of William James's sixty-eight years. Plagued with illness in his first three decades, he embraced art, then in succession chemistry, physiology, and medicine. Appointments in medicine then natural history at Harvard were quickly abandoned in favor of European tours before he finally married and settled into a thirty year academic career, the first half of which was devoted to the development of psychology, the second to nourishing his other great intellectual ...