William James

Why Is William James Influential?

According to Wikipedia, William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".

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William James's Published Works

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Published Papers

II.—WHAT IS AN EMOTION ? (1884) (1920)
The Meaning of Truth (401)
Discussion: The physical basis of emotion. (1894) (267)
The Chicago School. (217)
THE ENERGIES OF MEN. (1907) (159)
The consciousness of self. (153)
Review of Report on the Census of Hallucinations. (114)
Memories and Studies (97)
A World of Pure Experience. (1904) (86)
The knowing of things together. (74)
The Foundations of Ethics (69)
A Plea for Psychology as a 'Natural Science' (1892) (60)
The laws of habit (59)
The experience of activity. (58)
On some mental effects of the earthquake. (45)
The gospel of relaxation. (36)
A suggestion about mysticism. (1910) (33)
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT BEFORE THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. (1896) (30)
Present Philosophical Tendencies. (1912) (30)
The pragmatic method (29)
The social value of the college-bred. (29)
The stream of consciousness. (28)
Final impressions of a psychical researcher. (28)
A World of Pure Experience. II (1904) (27)
The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience (1905) (26)
II.—-ON THE FUNCTION OF COGNITION. (25)
The association of ideas. (23)
On Some Of Life's Ideals (23)
The stream of thought. (21)
The Thing and Its Relations (1905) (21)
G. Papini and the Pragmatist Movement in Italy (1906) (20)
I.—HUMANISM AND TRUTH (18)
The perception of reality. (18)
The perception of space. (15)
The Absolute and the Strenuous Life (1907) (14)
Remarks at the peace banquet. (12)
The perception of time. (12)
THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘TRUTH’ (11)
Origin of Right-handedness. (1890) (11)
How Two Minds Can Know One Thing (1905) (11)
Thought Before Language: A Deaf-Mute's Recollections (1892) (11)
The scope of psychology. (9)
The world of souls (9)
Bradley or Bergson (1910) (9)
The Essence of Humanism (8)
MRS. PIPER, 'THE MEDIUM.'. (1898) (8)
La Pathologie des Emotions (1893) (8)
A Word More About Truth (1907) (7)
The production of movement. (6)
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA. (1895) (6)
The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance with an Index to their Works . Bernhard Berenson. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1896. pp. 141. (1896) (5)
Discussion: Professor Wundt and feelings of innervation. (5)
Discrimination and comparison. (5)
Reason and Faith (5)
Talk To Teacher (4)
MESSRS. LEHMANN AND HANSEN ON TELEPATHY. (1899) (4)
STANFORD'S IDEAL DESTINY. (1906) (4)
PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING. (1887) (4)
Education and behavior. (4)
The fight for right (1916) (3)
The functions of the brain. (3)
Census of Hallucinations. (1890) (3)
Reaction-Time in the Hypnotic Trance (1889) (3)
"Truth" Versus "Truthfulness" (1908) (3)
Lecture I: The present dilemma in philosophy. (3)
The automaton-theory. (2)
LEHMAN AND HANSEN 'ON THE TELEPATHIC PROBLEM.'. (1898) (2)
Lecture XIX: Other characteristics. (2)
Lehman and Hansen 'On the Telepathic Problem.' (1898) (2)
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHICAL INSTITUTE. (1900) (2)
The psychological theory of extension (2)
Thomas Davidson: A knight-errant of the intellectual life. (2)
TELEPATHY ONCE MORE. (1899) (2)
Lecture IV: The one and the many. (2)
The mind-stuff theory. (2)
The methods and snares of psychology. (2)
Psychology and the teaching art. (2)
Professor Newcomb's address before the American society for psychical research. (1886) (2)
Lecture III: The reality of the unseen. (2)
Lecture VIII: The divided self, and the process of its unification. (1)
Telepathy Once More (1899) (1)
Lectures XI, XII, and XIII: Saintliness. (1)
Lecture IX: Conversion. (1)
Habit (From Psychology, Briefer Course). (1)
III.—HUMANISM AND TRUTH ONCE MORE (1)
The Mad Absolute (1906) (1)
Herbert Spencer's autobiography. (1)
Frederick Myers' services to psychology. (1)
On some general conditions of brain-activity. (1)
MR. BRADLEY ON IMMEDIATE RESEMBLANCE (1893) (1)
A Study of Contrasting Theories of Life (1915) (1)
Lectures IV and V: The religion of healthy-mindedness. (1)
Lecture II: Circumspection of the topic. (1)
Turner and Constable (1)
Lectures VI and VII: The sick soul. (1)
Controversy about truth (1907) (1)
Necessary truths and the effects of experience. (1)
Lecture XVIII: Philosophy. (1)
Robert Gould Shaw. (1)
Hallucinations and Telepathy. (1)
The perception of 'things' (1)
Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism. (1)
Messrs. Lehmann and Hansen on Telepathy (1899) (1)
Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and religion. (0)
A Reply to Mr. Pitkin (0)
The child as a behaving organism. (0)
Current Topics (1909) (0)
The energies of men (From Memories and Studies). (0)
Origin of Right-handedness (1890) (0)
The university and the individual. (0)
The acquisition of ideas. (0)
Swiss Cottage Hospital, ca. 1909. (0)
Professor Pratt on Truth (1907) (0)
Some general conditions of neural activity. (0)
Apparitions and Thought Transference, an Examination of the Evidence for Telepathy (1895) (0)
The structure of the brain. (0)
THE ORIGINAL DATUM OF SPACE-CONSCIOUSNESS (1893) (0)
Mine fires and how to fight them (0)
Sensation in general. (0)
Current Medical Topics (1891) (0)
Epilogue: Psychology and philosophy. (0)
The will (From Psychology, Vol. II). (0)
HUMAN IMMORTALITY ED. 6TH (0)
II.—The Perception of Space. (IV.) (1887) (0)
THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDATIONS OF HART AND SACKS (0)
Phantasms of the Living: Phantasms of the Living . By Edrund Gurney, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore. 2 vols. London, Trfibner, 1886. 8°. (1887) (0)
Lecture X: Conversion--concluded. (0)
Lecture XX: Conclusions. (0)
NOTES ON A CASE OF VARIOLA HÆMORRHAGICA. (1902) (0)
Mrs. Piper, 'The Medium' (1898) (0)
Humanism and truth (From The Meaning of Truth). (0)
The Sense of Effort. (0)
The sense of time. (0)
Lecture I: Religion and neurology. (0)
What the native reactions are. (0)
ENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN LESIONS OF BRAIN (0)
Lecture III: Some metaphysical problems pragmatically considered. (0)
"Report on the Census of Hallucinations": Erratum. (0)
Philosophy and its critics (From Some Problems of Philosophy). (0)
To the editor of mind (0)
The sixth annual meeting of the american philosophical association (0)
Native and acquired reactions. (0)
Lectures XIV and XV: The value of saintliness. (0)
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The relations of minds to other things. (0)
The necessity of reactions. (0)
Consciousness and movement. (0)
Sensations of motion. (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With William James?

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What Are William James's Academic Contributions?

William James is most known for their academic work in the field of psychology. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of philosophy and literature.

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