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James argued against Spencer’s evolutionism in the 1870s, but from the perspective of a broader naturalism. According to James, Spencer ignored important mental phenomena, in particular subjective interests and selective attention. Finally, I will briefly discuss how James deployed evolutionary ideas in his later writings on ethics and ...
Over one hundred years ago William James recognised that mental traits are subject to the same evolutionary processes as are physical characteristics and must therefore be represented in differing levels of complexity throughout the animal kingdom.
Between 1872 and 1890, William James developed an evolutionary account of phenomenal consciousness. He contended that consciousness enables the active evaluation of what is in (or might be in) one’s environment.
5 de feb. de 2018 · In this, he broke with James, who favored Darwinism and detested inheritance of acquired traits, which he associated with Herbert Spencer’s neo-Lamarckian evolutionary empiricism and the view that the environment impresses itself upon passive recipients.
The subtitle of the book, William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation, aptly characterizes the linear nature of the argument. If novelty and self-transformation are truly possible on naturalistic grounds, that must also be demonstrated as such from within the Darwinistic fold. McGranahan’s overriding concern is
William James (1842—1910) William James is considered by many to be the most insightful and stimulating of American philosophers, as well as the second of the three great pragmatists (the middle link between Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey ).
Over one hundred years ago William James recognised that mental traits are subject to the same evolutionary processes as are physical characteristics and must therefore be represented in differing levels of complexity throughout the animal kingdom.
