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William Royce began his television career writing for the NBC television series In the Heat of the Night, starring Emmy Award winning actor Carroll O'Connor as Chief William O. Gillespie and Academy Award nominee Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs.
Aug 3, 2004 · Royce’s friendly but longstanding dispute with William James, known as “The Battle of the Absolute,” deeply influenced both philosophers’ thought. In his later works, Royce reconceived his metaphysics as an “absolute pragmatism” grounded in semiotics.
May 27, 2014 · Among his many publications are Democracy Matters (Penguin, 2004), Race Matters (Beacon, 1993), and The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (University of Wisconsin Press...
Jan 6, 2010 · Summary. William James and Josiah Royce were colleagues and friendly critics of each other's thought for some twenty-five years in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard during a time which has been called the ‘Golden Period’ of American philosophy.
- John E. Smith
- 1985
Royce was concerned about the impact of an extreme individualism and particularly with the “heroic individualism” associated with Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James. Though inspiring as ethical visions, Royce believed these views eventually proved unsatisfactory for ethical life.
Besides Royce's pre-Harvard years, then, we will find that their shared life at Harvard can be divided appropriately into four periods. Living on for another six years after James's death, Royce invested more than a little of that time in pondering the heritage of William James.
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Jan 24, 2019 · Jan. 24, 2019. In 1900, there were two great philosophers working side by side at Harvard, William James and Josiah Royce. James was from an eminent Boston family and had all the grace,...
