William James | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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William James


00:01:59 1 Early life
00:05:29 2 Career
00:09:08 3 Family
00:09:52 4 Writings
00:11:30 5 Epistemology
00:15:37 5.1 Pragmatism and "cash value"
00:19:10 5.2 Will to believe doctrine
00:20:27 6 Free will
00:25:55 7 Philosophy of religion
00:27:54 8 Mysticism
00:28:37 9 Instincts
00:29:21 10 Theory of emotion
00:31:15 10.1 William James' bear
00:34:30 11 Philosophy of history
00:36:14 12 View on spiritualism and associationism
00:41:11 13 James' theory of the self
00:42:26 13.1 Material self
00:43:23 13.2 Social self
00:44:14 13.3 Spiritual self
00:45:05 13.4 Pure ego
00:45:42 14 Notable works
00:49:55 14.1 Collections
00:51:17 15 See also



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William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential U.S. philosophers, and has been labelled the "Father of American psychology".Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century. A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked James's reputation in second place, after Wilhelm Wundt, who is widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology. James also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty, and has even influenced Presidents, such as Jimmy Carter.
Born into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James and the diarist Alice James. James trained as a physician and taught anatomy at Harvard, but never practiced medicine. Instead he pursued his interests in psychology and then philosophy. James wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Among his most influential books are The Principles of Psychology, which was a groundbreaking text in the field of psychology; Essays in Radical Empiricism, an important text in philosophy; and The Varieties of Religious Experience, which investigated different forms of religious experience, including theories on mind-cure.