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Spiritual Currents of American Pragmatism
  • Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of William James's Lectures on The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1901-1902, The Swedenborg Society at Harvard Presents A Free Lecture Series on The Spiritual Currents of American Pragmatism, Delivered by Eugene Taylor, PhD Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. • print a poster, help us advertise!
  • Talks begin at 1pm on Sunday afternoons, schedule as follows.
    • October 28, 2001: What is Pragmatism?: Menand's Omission and Rorty's Error
    • November 11, 2001: The Doctrine of Correspondences in Emerson and Swedenborg
    • December 9, 2001: Henry James Sr. and James John Garth Wilkinson: The Physics of Creation
    • February 3, 2002: Love, Wisdom, and Use in the Pragmatism of William James, C. S. Peirce, and Chauncey Wright
    • March 3, 2002: Peirce and Swedenborg
    • April 7, 2002: William James and Depth Psychology
    • May 5, 2002 : Mystical Consciousness and the Transformation of Personality in James's Varieties
    • June 2, 2002: The Annual Wilfred Gould Rice Lecture on Psychology and Religion: "The Varieties and its Contemporary Influence"

  • Our presenter is Eugene Taylor, PhD, Lecturer on Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the Vice-President of the chapel's Swedenborgian Cambridge Society, and the author of "A Psychology of Spiritual Healing" and "Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America"
  • Admission Free. Reception to follow. For directions to the chapel including parking information, click here.

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