American History. James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford

William James as American Plato ?

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

James

a chair, he was the very picture of dejection. His small head was hanging, an obstreperous tuft of the coarse, sandy hair standing defiantly upright on the crown of it; his complexion was sallow and pasty, and not in any way enhanced by a sparse scattering of tiny yellow freckles, plainly visible at close view; his generous mouth drooped, like his head, the lips pale, but firmly closed. In his ...

JAMES COSTA Language history as charter myth ?

In this article, I intend to concentrate on one type of process by which Scots has found new legitimation as a language, and how discourses surrounding the issue of Scots might seek to contribute to the creation of a new Scottish society. I whish to show how history is used as a legitimating discursive device by the various components of the Scots language revitalisation movement. The question ...

James Taylor

James bundles

We study cubical sets without degeneracies, which we call –sets. These sets arise naturally in a number of settings and they have a beautiful intrinsic geometry; in particular a –set C has an infinite family of associated –sets J (C), i = 1, 2, . . ., which we call James complexes. There are mock bundle projections pi : |J (C)| → |C| (which we call James bundles) defining classes in unstable co...