James Chalmers

James Chalmers is the name of:

  • James Chalmers (loyalist) (c. 1730–1806), Scottish-born Loyalist officer from Maryland in the American Revolutionary War
  • James Chalmers (inventor) (1782–1853), Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
  • James Ronald Chalmers (1831–1898), American politician and Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War
  • James Chalmers (missionary) (1841–1901), Scottish-born missionary to New Guinea
  • James Chalmers McRuer (1890–1985), Canadian lawyer and author
  • James Chalmers (actor) (born 1974), British actor

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or chalmers:

    “True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
    —Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)