Abstract

From a review by a young Santayana of James's IThe Principles of PsychologyD, written well before IThe Life of ReasonD, are found reasons for questioning the position that only in the later years does his philosophy find its materialist ontology. His special delight is James's "tendency everywhere to substitute a physiological for a mental explanation of the phenomena of mind." Although he sees other aspects of James's metaphysics which conflict with this naturalism, it is clearly the latter which Santayana admired and in some measure adopted