http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#wm-james <ul>Recommended: <li>Jacques <a href="barzun.html">Barzun</a>, <cite>A Stroll with William James.</cite> [Biography and exposition of his thought just on the far side of worship. Good.] <li>William James <ul> <li><cite><a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/">Principles of Psychology</a></cite> <li><cite><a href="pragmatism.html">Pragmatism</a></cite> <li><cite>Varieties of Religious Experience</cite> [Really a kind of vol. III of the <cite>Principles</cite>] <li><cite>The Will to Believe</cite> </ul> <li>Lewis Menand, ``<a href="http://www.nyrev.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?1998121781F">William James and the Case of the Epileptic Patient</a>'' (New York <cite>Review,</cite> 30 November 1998) </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>William James on Exceptional Mental States,</cite> a reconstruction of hitherto-lost lectures that fall between the <cite>Principles</cite> and the <cite>Varieties.</cite> <li>Mark Nielsen and R. H. Day, ``William James and the Evolution of Consciousness,'' <cite>Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology</cite> <strong>19</strong> (1999): 90--113 [<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/13/27/">online</a>] <li>Perry, <cite>Thought and Character of William James</cite> <li><a href="http://www.softlock.com/staff/schull/">Jonathan Schull</a>, <a href="http://www.awa.com/schull/wwwjames.html">William James and the Word Wide Web (William James for Our Time)</a> and <a href="http://www.awa.com/schull/wwwjames.html">William James Writ Large</a> </ul>