This edited volume demonstrates that a virtue-centered approach to the ethical life is a consistent feature of William James's moral reasoning from the 1880s until his death in 1910. Little else, however, seems constant within James's writings on moral philosophy and the ethical life, and this lack of constancy is what keeps James's work of interest more than a century later.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Moral Interpretations of The Principles of Psychology
1. Guy Axtell, "Emotions and Morals in The Principles of Psychology"
2. Gregory Eiselein, "Ethics and Emotion in William James's The Principles of Psychology"
3. Jacob L. Goodson, "Love and Sex in William James's Principles of Psychology"
Part II. James's Early Writings on Moral Philosophy
4. Amy Kittelstrom, "Blindnesses in James's Day-and Beyond"
5. D. Micah Hester & Joseph D. John, "To See or Not to See?"-That Is the Question: James's "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"
6. Jacob L. Goodson, "Horny Hands and Dirty Skin: Courage, Humility, Patience, and Tolerance in William James's Ethics"
Part III. Moral Interpretations of James's "Popular Essays"
7. Roger Ward, "The Cries of the Wounded: Transformative Moral Interpretation in James, Royce, and Peirce"
8. John R. Shook, "The Moral Life as the Basis for Moral Philosophy"
9. Neal A. Tognazzini, "Regretting the Impossible"
Part IV. The Morality and Immorality of James's "The Will-to-Believe" Argument
10. Scott F. Aikin & Robert B. Talisse, "The Will-to-Believe is Immoral"
11. Scott R. Stroud & Jaishikha Nautiyal, "Stoic Rhetoric and the Ethics of Empowered Individualism: "The Will to Believe" as Moral Philosophy"
Part V. The Moral Implications of James's Lectures on Human Immortality
12. Anthony Karlin, "William James on Human Immortality"
13. Ermine L. Algaier IV, "A Radical Empiricist Defense of Irrationality"
Part VI. Moral Interpretations of The Varieties of Religious Experience
14. G. Scott Davis, "Understanding the Warrior Spirit: William James on Nature, Virtue, and the Will to Empire"
15. Eric Silverman, "William James and Thomas Aquinas on the Fruits of Love and Saintliness"
16. Lee Yearley, "William James as Virtue Ethicist: The Heroic Virtue of Voluntary Poverty"
Part VII. Moral Interpretations of James's Pluralism and Pragmatism
17. Frederick J. Ruf, "Is James an Existentialist?"
18. Sami Pihlström, "The Cries of the Wounded in Pragmatism: The Problem of Evil and James's Pragmatic Method as an Ethical Grounding of Metaphysics"
19. Guy Axtell, "James on Pragmatism and Religion"
20. Seth Vannatta, "Leaping into the Gap: Religion and the Moral Life"
21. Gary S. Slater, "The Moral Framework of A Pluralistic Universe"
Part VIII. James's Later Writings on Moral Philosophy
22. Pamela Crosby, "The Education of Moral Character: A Comparison of James and Aristotle"
23. David O'Hara, "Is War Evil? Reflections on William James's 'The Moral Equivalent of War'"
About the Contributors

Jacob L. Goodson is assistant professor of philosophy at Southwestern College.