William James at the Boundaries

Introduction: Mental Energy, Boundary Work, and the Geography of Knowledge

1          Philosophy and Science

2          Philosophy Versus the Naturalistic Science of Man

James’s Early Negotiations of Disciplinary and Pedagogical Boundaries

3          James and the (Im)moral Economy of Science

4          Mental Boundaries and Pragmatic Truth

5          Pragmatism, Psychologism, and a “Science of Man”

6          Ecstasy and Community

James and the Politics of the Self

7          The Philosopher’s Place

James, Münsterberg, and Philosophical Trees

8          The Philosopher’s Mind

Routinists, Undisciplinables, and “The Energies of Men’”

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography