IS THERE A JAMESIAN TRADITION IN PSYCHOLOGY

If there is a Jamesian ''tradition, '' it is to he located in James's own skepticism toward theorizing, his commitment to a serious and mora lly informed pragmatism, and his resolve to accept the facts of psycho logical life where they are found, without editing or distorting them to serve a pet paradigm. This orientation virtually precludes a Jamesi an school of psychology, but establishes James's works as abidingly im portant when the discipline undertakes the necessary if chastening bur dens of self-criticism.