Professor William James M.'69 will deliver the first of a series of eight lectures on "The Present Situation in Philosophy," in Emerson D, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This course was given by him at Oxford last May in his capacity as Hibbert lecturer. The special topic of today's lecture, which will serve as an introduction to the series, will be "The types of philosophic thinking." The remaining subjects and the dates on which they will be discussed are as follows: November 9, "Monastic idealism"; November 13, "On Hegel"; November 16, "On Fechner"; November 20, "The compounding of consciousness"; November 23, "Bergson's critique of intellectualism"; November 27, "The continuity of experiences"; November 30, "A pluralistic universe." All the lectures will be open to the public, as well as to the members of the University.

Professor James resigned from active work in January, 1907, after having been a professor at Harvard since 1872. The best-known course which he conducted in the University was Philosophy D, on general problems in philosophy. Upon his resignation he was made "professor emeritus," and since then he has devoted much of his time to writing and lecturing. He is the author of "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking," a work which has attracted wide attention both in this country and in Europe.