Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James

by Ralph Barton Perry

Excerpt from Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James
1867
1. Review (unsigned) of A German-American Novel (Grimm). Nation, 1SG7, 5, 432-433.
Review of Herman Grimm's Uniibcrwindliche M&chte.
1868
1. Review (unsigned) on Moral Medication. Nation, 1868, 7, 50-52.
Review of A. A. Liebault's Du Sommeil ct des Etats analogues, considcrcs surtout att point dc vuc de Vaction dtt Moral sur le. Physique. Manifests interest in scientific method in abnormal psychology.
2. Review (unsigned) of Ch. Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Atlantic Monthly, 1868, 22, 122-124.
Shows rigorous scientific temper; suspects Darwin of placing too much reliance on "ingenious reasoning."
3. Review (unsigned) of Claude Bernard's Rapport sur le Progres et la Marche de la Physiologic generate en France. North Amer. Rev., 1868, 107, 322-32S.
Discussion of the extravagant claims of physiology, then just beginning its career as an independent science; and of the difficulties of the medical student who is called upon to master a considerable amount of science of which the applications are not developed.
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First published January 1, 1973

About the author

an American philosopher.
He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1896) and at Harvard (M.A., 1897; Ph.D., 1899), where, after teaching philosophy for three years at Williams and Smith colleges, he was instructor (1902–05), assistant professor (1905–13), full professor (1913–30) and Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy (1930–46). He was president of the American Philosophical Association's eastern division in the year 1920-21.
A pupil of William James, whose Essays in Radical Empiricism he edited (1912), Perry became one of the leaders of the New Realism movement. Perry argued for a naturalistic theory of value and a New Realist theory of perception and knowledge. He wrote a celebrated biography of William James, which won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and proceeded to a revision of his critical approach to natural knowledge. An active member among a group of American New Realist philosophers, he elaborated around 1910 the program of new realism. However, he soon dissented from moral and spiritual ontology, and turned to a philosophy of disillusionment. Perry was an advocate of a militant democracy: in his words "total but not totalitarian". In 1946-8 he delivered in Glasgow his Gifford Lectures, titled Realms of Value.
He married Rachel Berenson and they lived in Cambridge. Their son was Edward Barton Perry Jr. born at their home 5 Avon Street in Cambridge, 27 Sept. 1906. The son E. B. P. Jr. married in 1932 Harriet Armington Seelye (born Worcester, Massachusetts, 28 May, 1909, daughter of physician and surgeon Dr. Walker Clarke Seelye of Worcester and Annie Ide Barrows Seelye, formerly of Providence, Rhode Island.