Which branch of Philosophy....

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...Said that when we make our own choices, we then effect our lifes

-- Ciara Murphy (hurlmurph@AOL.com), September 29, 2003

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This sounds a bit like William James' pragmatism. Befuddled by the answer to the question of free will, he said that he would affirm his own freedom by simply deciding that he had free will, and proceed from there.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 29, 2003.

Working independently,William James(1884)and Danish psychologist named Lang(1885)put forward similar models of emotion,now known as the James-Lang theory.The theory is counter intutive.Their idea was that the perception of an emotion-arousing stimulus leads to a behavourial response.The response involves changes to the body's psysiological system.

-- Sydney George Judge (Sydey@judge9163.fsnet.co.uk), November 02, 2003.

Just for the record, his name was Lange (Carl Georg), and a translation of his "The mechanism of the emotions" (1885) is on-line at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Lange/

William James' "What is an emotion?" (1884) is also on-line at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm

-- Christopher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), November 02, 2003.


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