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	William James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William James, with his younger brother Henry James (who became a prominent novelist) and sister Alice James (who is known for her posthumously published diary), received an eclectic trans-Atlantic education, developing fluency in both German and French languages along with a cosmopolitan character.
		He was appointed instructor in physiology for the spring 1873 term, instructor in anatomy and physiology in 1873, assistant professor of psychology in 1876, assistant professor of philosophy in 1881, full professor in 1885, endowed chair in psychology in 1889, return to philosophy in 1897, and emeritus professor of philosophy in 1907.
		James is one of the two namesakes of the James-Lange theory of emotion, which he formulated independently of Carl Lange in the 1880s.
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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - William James
		William James was born in New York, son of Henry James, Sr.
		In his years early adulthood, James suffered from a variety of physical and mental difficulties, including problems with his eyes, back, stomach, and skin, as well as periods of depression in which he was tempted by the thought of suicide.
		James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and began to teach in those subjects, but was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was constituting itself as a science.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/William_James (1809 words)

	Learn more about William James in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William James (January 11, 1842, New York - August 26, 1910 Chocorua, New Hampshire), philosopher and elder brother of the writer Henry James, was born in New York.
		James was not trained as a philosopher, but rather as a psychologist, at the time when the two disciplines were only beginning to separate themselves.
		James also did important work in the study and philosophy of religion, providing a wide-ranging account of The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and interpreting them according to his pragmatic leanings.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /w/wi/william_james.html (414 words)

	William James
		William would ground his salvation in the methodology of science and formal logic, seeking first to comprehend his own difficult experience in physiological terms, then to master its difficulties via the disciplines psychology and ultimately philosophy.
		It was the mystery of the thing that interested William James, the long documentary record, and he chose to treat his subject with ultimate respect as well as honest eyes, aware of both its lunatic shadows and its luminous core.
		William James died of heart disease at his family's summer home in New Hampshire in 1910, having spent the last of his failing energies to help his brother Henry struggle free of his own darkest night of the soul.
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	William James - Biography, Chronology, and Photographs
		William James was born in New York City on January 11, 1842, to an affluent, cosmopolitan, and deeply religious family.
		Although William later complained that during his entire stay in Switzerland, he had never seen the inside of a Swiss home ("the aristocratic and respectable Genevese are very exclusive and reserved in their demeanor towards strangers," he wrote), the club afforded him the experience of informal student life.
		James himself was aware of "how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is 'true' so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives," and he worked both to clarify his definition of pragmatism and to emphasize the moral element that accompanies it.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/jphotos.html (8890 words)

	William James (naval commander) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Commodore Sir William James (1720 – 16 December 1783) was a notable British naval commander.
		A poor Welsh miller's son, James ran away to sea in 1732 and by 1738 was commanding his own ship and serving in the West Indies.
		He returned to England in 1759, settling in Eltham in south-east London, and later became chairman of the directors of the East India Company, a governor of Greenwich Hospital and a fellow of the Royal Society for his contribution to navigation.
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	William James
		William James was an original thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology and philosophy.
		James is thinking in part of the experiments his contemporaries Wundt, Stumpf and Fechner were performing in their laboratories, which led them to results such as that "sounds are less delicately discriminated in intensity than lights" (PP 513).
		James holds that truths are "made" (104) in the course of human experience; yet although they live for the most part "on a credit system" in that they are not currently being verified by most of those who have them, "beliefs verified concretely by somebody are the posts of the whole superstructure" (P, 100).
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/fall2004/entries/james (5012 words)

	ITP \| William James
		For William James, psychology was bounded by biology on one side and philosophy on the other; it addressed all areas of human experience.
		James acknowledged that psychology was an immature science, lacking sufficient information in its formulation of consistent laws of sensation, perception, or even the nature of consciousness.
		James defined psychology as "the description and explanation of states of consciousness as such." The field of psychology was defined by his explorations and findings.
	www.itp.edu /about/william_james.cfm (2857 words)

	Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent
		James [see figure 50] was, first of all heir to the older moral philosophy.
		William James fell heir to this Swedenborgian and transcendentalist literary psychology (see Henry James's The Secret of Swedenborg [58] and William James's edition of the Literary Remains of the Late Henry James [59]), but was forced to square its religious epistemology with the more rigorous scientific dictates of his own age.
		James was not so naive, however, that he thought he had solved the mind/body dilemma originally posed so trenchantly by Descartes.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /Mind/James.html (1868 words)

	WILLIAM JAMES BIOGRAPHY I
		William James was a physician, naturalist, artist, psychologist, philosopher, religious thinker, psychic researcher, drug experimenter, writer, lecturer, and professor.
		William James was born on January 11, 1842, in New York City.
		James was a born teacher; he was very far from authoritarianism and treated his students as intellectual equals.
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	James
		William James was raised in a highly intellectual household: his father Henry, Sr.
		James himself emphasized the notion of the individual self or person as a continuous "stream of consciousness" capable of exercising free will.
		Since for James it was the consequences of believing that matter, he argued in "The Will to Believe" (1897) that belief must remain an individual process and that we may rationally choose to believe some crucial propositions even though they lie beyond the reach of reason and evidence.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/jame.htm (407 words)

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		William James was born the eldest of five children to Henry James Sr.
		William James attended the Academy, the precursor to the University of Geneva (Pajares, 2002).
		William James is acknowledged as the father of American psychology (Pajares, 2002).
	faculty.frostburg.edu /mbradley/psyography/williamjames.html (1563 words)

	Philosophers : William James
		William James was born in New York city in 1842 to a priviledged family.
		James began, in 1883, to develop a view and practice of psychology and its clinical procedures.
		He thought these topics were empirical, not dialectical; James went directly to religious experience for the nature of God, to psychical research for survival after death, to fields of belief and action for free will and determinism.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/wjames.html (497 words)

	William James
		James discusses the experiments that his contemporaries Wundt, Stumpf and Fechner were performing in their laboratories, which led them to results such as that "sounds are less delicately discriminated in intensity than lights" (PP 513).
		James maintains that this thought is a natural human response to the universe, independent of any proof that God exists, and he predicts that God will be the "centre of gravity of all attempts to solve the riddle of life" (WB, 116).
		James sets out a central distinction of the book in early chapters on "The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness" and "The Sick Soul." The healthy-minded religious person — Walt Whitman is one of James's main examples — has a deep sense of "the goodness of life," (79) and a soul of "sky-blue tint" (80).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/james (5720 words)

	William James
		William James Award Competition, from APA Eastern Division.
		William James's Narrative of Habit, by Renee Tursi, from findarticles.com.
		The William James Lecture Hall is "devoted to all contemplations, musings, and queries concerning William James." It's a discussion group.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/james.html (2510 words)

	William James -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		James on the goal of psychology - a modest little slide show.
		Generally this chatroom is most active from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST, but you may arrange other times to meet here in the William James Lecture Hall, where you can also post more permanent messages and enjoy an archive of fellow student's wit and wisdom.
		Contains a brief description of main landmarks in the life and work of William James, who is considered to be the father of modern American psychology.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~american/html/james.htm (757 words)

	James, William
		In particular, she defends James against those philosophers who have interpreted his pragmatic justification of religion as being a disguised form of humanism, incongruous with the elevated domain of a genuine religious point of view.
		William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist.
		By placing James in his intellectual landscape, the volume will be useful not only to philosophers but also to teachers and students in such areas as religious studies, history of ideas, and American studies.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William James MacNeven
		William James MacNeven was the eldest of four sons.
		At the age of twelve he was sent by his uncle Baron MacNeven, to receive his education abroad, for the penal laws rendered education impossible for Catholics in Ireland.
		This Baron MacNeven was William O'Kelly MacNeven, an Irish exile physician, who for his medical skill in her service had been created an Austrian noble by the Empress Maria Theresa.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09506b.htm (493 words)

	William George James
		William James, as well as his brother were given the rank of Private and were among 96 men in total who made up Company for Beat No. 4, Fannin County.
		William's name was recorded and "appears on a copy of a list of commissioned officers elected, and those relieved, at the re-organization of Colonel Alexander's Regiment, June 27, 1862, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved April 16, 1862, and G.O. No. -- of date June 26, 1862.
		On January 30, 1900, William answers form interrogatories on behalf of Nancy A. Privett, the widow of the late Lee Andrew Privett, who is applying for financial assistance from the State of Texas in the form of a Confederate military pension due her late husband.
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	Amazon.com: William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James was a wide-ranging writer -- not only did he take psychology and philosophy seriously, but also religion, including mysticism -- hence the title _The Varities of Religious Experience._ James was no ivory-tower egghead: he even tried mescaline once (although he admits he barfed it up).
		In this work James' own particular mental crisis is included, as is his development of the concept of 'twice- born'of that kind of human being who having gone through the dark night of the soul, emerges to see the world with a depth of understanding those 'once born' cannot know.
		Readers interested in James would do better to pick up a copy of the "Writings of William James" edited by John J. McDermott (whose own introduction to James is also far superior to that of the editor of this volume).
	www.amazon.com /William-James-Pragmatism-Pluralistic-Philosophy/dp/0940450380 (2052 words)

	James, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		New York City, M.D. Harvard, 1869; son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James and brother of the novelist Henry James.
		In 1872 he joined the Harvard faculty as lecturer on anatomy and physiology, continuing to teach until 1907, after 1880 in the department of psychology and philosophy.
		The function of an idea is to indicate “what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve—what sensations we are to expect from it and what reactions we must prepare.” This theory of knowledge James called pragmatism, a term already used by Charles S. Peirce.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ja/JamesWi.html (377 words)

	William James
		James purchased a colliery in South Staffordshire and was the first to open the West Bromwich coalfield.
		Although mainly concerned with canals, William James was aware of the developments being made with locomotives.
		However, James over-stretched himself and in 1823 he was declared bankrupt and was imprisoned for debt.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAjames.htm (406 words)

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	Amazon.com: The Principles of Psychology: Books: William James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William James and the Metaphysics of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought) by David C. Lamberth on 17 pages
		While the behaviorist movement that came after James led to important advances in scientific method, in terms of objectively establishing empirical results, it also led to a massive denial of mental phenomena that cannot at present be explained purely in mechanical or behaviorial terms.
		James has been rightly credited as the father of Psychology, and this was the work that launched psychology into a field of its own.
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