William James’ Principles of Psychology, in which he made famous the ‘specious present’ doctrine of temporal experience, and Edmund Husserl’s Zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins, were giant strides in the philosophical investigation of the temporality of experience. However, an important set of precursors to these works has not been adequately investigated. In this article, we under...

This paper argues that an individualist perspective is a crucial element of William James’s metaphilosophical outlook. In broad outline, the argument attributes to James can be characterized like this. Disputes among philosophers about optimal point view from which consider this or philosophical problem are themselves only adequately adjudicated perspective. That is, when it comes assortment im...

Just over three hundred years ago, William of Orange seized the British crown for himself and his wife Mary Stuart from his uncle and father-in-law, James II. In a virtually bloodless take-over, William's coup placed firm Protestants on a throne that had been occupied by a Catholic monarch ruling in an increasingly autocratic manner without Parliament and in contempt of the Established Church-a...