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According to Wikipedia, William James was an American philosopher, 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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II.—WHAT IS AN EMOTION ? (1884) (1933)
The Meaning of Truth (406)
Discussion: The physical basis of emotion. (1894) (274)
The Chicago School. (221)
THE ENERGIES OF MEN. (1907) (160)
The consciousness of self. (155)
Review of Report on the Census of Hallucinations. (115)
Memories and Studies (97)
A World of Pure Experience. (1904) (87)
The knowing of things together. (75)
The Foundations of Ethics (69)
A Plea for Psychology as a 'Natural Science' (1892) (62)
The laws of habit (60)
The experience of activity. (59)
On some mental effects of the earthquake. (45)
The gospel of relaxation. (36)
A suggestion about mysticism. (1910) (34)
Present Philosophical Tendencies. (1912) (30)
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT BEFORE THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. (1896) (30)
The social value of the college-bred. (29)
The pragmatic method (29)
The stream of consciousness. (28)
Final impressions of a psychical researcher. (28)
The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience (1905) (27)
A World of Pure Experience. II (1904) (27)
II.—-ON THE FUNCTION OF COGNITION. (25)
The association of ideas. (23)
On Some Of Life's Ideals (23)
The Thing and Its Relations (1905) (23)
G. Papini and the Pragmatist Movement in Italy (1906) (21)
The stream of thought. (21)
I.—HUMANISM AND TRUTH (18)
The perception of reality. (18)
The perception of space. (15)
The Absolute and the Strenuous Life (1907) (14)
The perception of time. (12)
Remarks at the peace banquet. (12)
Thought Before Language: A Deaf-Mute's Recollections (1892) (11)
Origin of Right-handedness. (1890) (11)
THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘TRUTH’ (11)
How Two Minds Can Know One Thing (1905) (11)
The world of souls (10)
Bradley or Bergson (1910) (9)
The scope of psychology. (9)
MRS. PIPER, 'THE MEDIUM.'. (1898) (8)
La Pathologie des Emotions (1893) (8)
The Essence of Humanism (8)
A Word More About Truth (1907) (7)
The production of movement. (6)
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA. (1895) (6)
Discrimination and comparison. (5)
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)
Reason and Faith (5)
Talk To Teacher (4)
Education and behavior. (4)
PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING. (1887) (4)
STANFORD'S IDEAL DESTINY. (1906) (4)
MESSRS. LEHMANN AND HANSEN ON TELEPATHY. (1899) (4)
The functions of the brain. (3)
The fight for right (1916) (3)
Lecture I: The present dilemma in philosophy. (3)
"Truth" Versus "Truthfulness" (1908) (3)
Census of Hallucinations. (1890) (3)
Reaction-Time in the Hypnotic Trance (1889) (3)
Lecture III: The reality of the unseen. (2)
The psychological theory of extension (2)
LEHMAN AND HANSEN 'ON THE TELEPATHIC PROBLEM.'. (1898) (2)
Lecture XIX: Other characteristics. (2)
The methods and snares of psychology. (2)
The perception of 'things' (2)
Thomas Davidson: A knight-errant of the intellectual life. (2)
Psychology and the teaching art. (2)
The mind-stuff theory. (2)
Professor Newcomb's address before the American society for psychical research. (1886) (2)
The automaton-theory. (2)
Lecture IV: The one and the many. (2)
THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHICAL INSTITUTE. (1900) (2)
Lehman and Hansen 'On the Telepathic Problem.' (1898) (2)
TELEPATHY ONCE MORE. (1899) (2)
Lecture II: Circumspection of the topic. (1)
Telepathy Once More (1899) (1)
Messrs. Lehmann and Hansen on Telepathy (1899) (1)
MR. BRADLEY ON IMMEDIATE RESEMBLANCE (1893) (1)
Frederick Myers' services to psychology. (1)
Lecture VIII: The divided self, and the process of its unification. (1)
Lecture IX: Conversion. (1)
Controversy about truth (1907) (1)
A Study of Contrasting Theories of Life (1915) (1)
The Mad Absolute (1906) (1)
Herbert Spencer's autobiography. (1)
Lecture XVIII: Philosophy. (1)
Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism. (1)
On some general conditions of brain-activity. (1)
Robert Gould Shaw. (1)
Turner and Constable (1)
Lectures VI and VII: The sick soul. (1)
Habit (From Psychology, Briefer Course). (1)
III.—HUMANISM AND TRUTH ONCE MORE (1)
Lectures XI, XII, and XIII: Saintliness. (1)
Necessary truths and the effects of experience. (1)
Hallucinations and Telepathy. (1)
Lectures IV and V: The religion of healthy-mindedness. (1)
The positive content of religious experience (From The Varieties of Religious Experience). (1)
Native and acquired reactions. (0)
NOTES ON A CASE OF VARIOLA HÆMORRHAGICA. (1902) (0)
Current Topics (1909) (0)
"Report on the Census of Hallucinations": Erratum. (0)
Consciousness and movement. (0)
HUMAN IMMORTALITY ED. 6TH (0)
To the editor of mind (0)
The Sense of Effort. (0)
Epilogue: Psychology and philosophy. (0)
THE ORIGINAL DATUM OF SPACE-CONSCIOUSNESS (1893) (0)
The structure of the brain. (0)
The university and the individual. (0)
Lecture X: Conversion--concluded. (0)
The sense of time. (0)
ENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN LESIONS OF BRAIN (0)
THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDATIONS OF HART AND SACKS (0)
Philosophy and its critics (From Some Problems of Philosophy). (0)
Lecture XX: Conclusions. (0)
Mine fires and how to fight them (0)
Lecture I: Religion and neurology. (0)
Swiss Cottage Hospital, ca. 1909. (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)
A Reply to Mr. Pitkin (0)
Sensation in general. (0)
Mrs. Piper, 'The Medium' (1898) (0)
Apparitions and Thought Transference, an Examination of the Evidence for Telepathy (1895) (0)
The relations of minds to other things. (0)
Current Medical Topics (1891) (0)
The child as a behaving organism. (0)
Professor Pratt on Truth (1907) (0)
Some general conditions of neural activity. (0)
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The acquisition of ideas. (0)
The necessity of reactions. (0)
What the native reactions are. (0)
Lecture III: Some metaphysical problems pragmatically considered. (0)
II.—The Perception of Space. (IV.) (1887) (0)
Book Review:The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. Jane Addams (0)
Origin of Right-handedness (1890) (0)
The will (From Psychology, Vol. II). (0)
Sensations of motion. (0)
Lectures XIV and XV: The value of saintliness. (0)
The energies of men (From Memories and Studies). (0)
The sixth annual meeting of the american philosophical association (0)
Humanism and truth (From The Meaning of Truth). (0)
Lecture VIII: Pragmatism and religion. (0)

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