The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have…

In the recently published Life by Leslie Stephen of his brother, Fitz-James, there is an account of a school to which the latter went when…

When Mr. Mallock’s book with this title appeared some fifteen years ago, the jocose answer that “it depends on the liver” had great…

What is the task which philosophers set themselves to perform; and why do they philosophize at all? Almost every one will immediately…

Let me confess to the diffidence with which I find myself standing here to-day. When the invitation of your committee reached me last fall,…

A COMMON opinion prevails that the juice has ages ago been pressed out of the free-will controversy, and that no new champion can do more…

The main purpose of this paper is to show that there is no such thing possible as an ethical philosophy dogmatically made up in advance. We…

A REMARKABLE parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of…

The previous Essay, on Great Men, etc., called forth two replies,—one by Mr. Grant Allen, entitled the ‘Genesis of Genius,’ in the Atlantic…

We are just now witnessing a singular phenomenon in British and American philosophy. Hegelism, so defunct on its native soil that I believe…

“THE great field for new discoveries,” said a scientific friend to me the other day, “is always the unclassified residuum.” Round about the…