James Bissett Pratt

James Bissett Pratt

James Bissett Pratt (22 June 1875, Elmira, New York – 15 January 1944) was a philosophy teacher at Williams College.He wrote several books.

Writings

* The Psychology of Religious Belief, 1907
* What is Pragmatism? 1909
* India and its Faiths
* Democracy and Peace
* Essays in Critical Realism
* The Religious Consciousness. A Psychological Study, 1920
* Matter and Spirit, 1922
* The Pilgrimage of Buddhism, 1928.
* Reason in the Art of Living, 1949
* Eternal Values of Religion, 1950

External links

* [http://archives.williams.edu/manuscriptguides/pratt/bio1.php Biographical Note] , James Bissett Pratt Papers, Williams College Archives and Special Collections


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