Examines the process of psychoanalysis and discusses the inability of the analyst to determine the patient's actual experiences through the recollections of the patient
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGEFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement.Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson.Emanating from these lives are la
Do you want to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at your institution, but you don't know where to start? In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a small Catholic secondary school erupted in controversy. Students and alumni took to social media to share stories of their own experiences with racism on campus. It was clear that the school's culture needed to change. Enter Sr. Colleen Mary Mallon, who joined the high school as the director of mission formation. Pursing grassroots institutional reform, Sr. Colleen found a new meaning of theological education. In this candid volume, Sr. Colleen reflects on the challenges of molding her Dominican school to embody its charism of veritas. This commitment to truth required her school and her Dominican sisters to recognize their complicity in white supremacy and to center the concerns of marginalized communities. Educating faculty, staff, administrators, and parents in Catholic Social Teaching equipped them to bring th
．20世紀心理學巨擘威廉．詹姆斯經典著作，關於真理相關演講、評論或論述的合輯。．詹姆斯的真理哲學是多角度的關照，其對真理意義的剖析，及對真理誤解的駁斥，是透過不同視野剔透出真理的多元論意義。．經由詹姆斯對真理意義的清理與論述，重新理解「實在」與「真理」的困擾議題如何梳理。追求真理，追求人生的意義宗教信仰能成為真理嗎？真理如何被實現呢？與真理等價的又是什麼？「我認為我們的宗教信仰之能成為真理，是涵括在其讓我們『覺得好』而不是在其他因素上。」百年前，20世紀心理學巨擘威廉‧詹姆斯如是說，引來許多爭議，百年後的今天，探討「真理」的聲音卻似乎相當稀微薄弱。雖然詹姆斯自小就對哲學很有興趣，但他在年過半百後才將學術興趣轉向哲學，於1907年出版《實用主義》（Pragmatism），一時洛陽紙貴，被公認為是美國當時最有名的哲學家。pragmatism這個詞借用自美國符號學大師、實用主義哲學家皮爾斯（Charles Sanders Peirce, 1839-1914），但是皮爾斯只是提出一個避免模稜兩可、不夠精確的哲學方法，詹姆斯卻繼續推演成為一個關於真理的理論。詹姆斯否認在一個不斷變化的世界中有絕對的真理，真理是暫時性的，而非依絕對的標準存在。詹姆斯將對真理的分析，應用到對道德原則的討論，他認為絕對的道德標準必須讓位給將人類的情況與經驗考慮進去的價值觀。繼《實用主義》之後，威廉‧詹姆斯將自己所有直接討論真理問題的文章匯集成此書，命名「真理的意義」（The Meaning of Truth），內容談及認知的功能、「真理」一詞的意義、人文主義的本質、人文主義與真理、實用主義者對真理的解釋及其誤解者、認識者與被認識者的關係、絕對者與精力充沛的生活、抽象主義與「相對主義」，以及與其他學者關於真理的對話。他相信對「真理」明確的定論將在知識論的歷史上形成一個轉捩點，之後在一般哲學史中也必是如此！
James (1842-1910), an early champion of pragmatic American philosophy, answered critics of the chapter on truth in his 1907 Pragmatism by synthesizing all had ever written about the topic into a boo
Preeminent American philosopher and educator John Dewey (1859-1952) rejected Hegelian idealism for the pragmatism of William James.In this collection of informal, highly readable essays, originally pu
Pragmatism is the most famous single work of American philosophy. Its sequel, The Meaning of Truth, is its imperative and inevitable companion. The definitive texts of both works are here available fo
In this sequel to Pragmatism, one of America's outstanding philosophers, William James (1842-1910), responds to absolutist critics - believers in immutable truth and innate or inherited knowledge - wh
