Robert D. Richardson
Robert D. Richardson is the author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. His new book, First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press.
Articles
- Chance, Choice, and Freedom: The Legacy of Darwin, Peirce, and James
Parisian stabbings and palm tree seeds. Statistics may be predictable, but they predict nothing in individual cases: The author pits choice against determinism

