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..., William ( 1842–1910 ) US philosopher and psychologist , elder brother of Henry James . He held that the feeling of emotion is based on the sensation of a state of the body; the bodily state comes first and the emotion follows. As a philosopher, he influenced pragmatism . His most famous works are The Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ) and Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) An American philosopher of the pragmatist school , and brother of the novelist Henry James . Notable mainly for his unusual accomplishment in significantly influencing the development both of neo-positivism and symbolic interactionism , via his view that the empirical consequences of an idea constitute its meaning. See also peirce ; pragmatism (philosophy of)...
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) American philosopher The Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ) Non-Fiction The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ) Non-Fiction Pragmatism ( 1907 ) Non-Fiction The Meaning of Truth ( 1909 ) Non-Fiction A Pluralistic Universe ( 1909 ) ...
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Gordon Campbell
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
... (Chapel Hill, NC, 1981). J. Carrette , William James’s Hidden Religious Imagination (New York, 2013). C. Taylor , Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Cambridge, Mass.,...
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Paul Jerome Croce
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...his life and work, William James bridged religion and science as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. See also Dewey, John ; Evolution, Theory of ; Philosophy ; Science: Revolutionary War to World War I . Ralph Barton Perry , The Thought and Character of William James , 2 vols., 1935. Howard Feinstein , Becoming William James , 1984. Gerald Myers , William James: His Life and Thought , 1986. George Cotkin , William James, Public Philosopher , 1990. Paul Jerome Croce , Science and Religion in the Era of William James , vol. 1, Eclipse of...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) American philosopher , born in New York, the elder brother of Henry James . He was at first a student of art and then a teacher of physiology, but turned his attention to psychology. He pioneered the study of psychology at Harvard University and numbered among his students W. E. Du Bois and Gertrude Stein . His views are embodied in his Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ), where he coined the expression stream of consciousness , now widely used as a literary term. He opposed philosophical idealism, preferring empiricism,...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
...of controversy at the time. Nonetheless, James had a strong interest in the belief in truth , which he accorded enormous power. In The Will to Believe ( 1897 ), James showed himself to be a defender of religion—not for its access to higher truths but, characteristically, for the intensity of human experience that it fostered. James undertook to present the vast diversity of these forms of belief in The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ). James came from an exceptional family: his father, William James Sr. , was a prominent religious philosopher;...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) American philosopher , the elder brother of Henry James . He pioneered the study of psychology at Harvard University and numbered among his students W. E. Du Bois and Gertrude Stein . His views are embodied in his Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ), where he coined the expression stream of consciousness . He opposed philosophical idealism, preferring empiricism, and took a pluralistic approach to the world, as demonstrated in Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ) and A Pluralistic Universe ( 1909 ). His 1896 essay...
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
...George . William James, Public Philosopher (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. [Presents James’s life and thought in his social and intellectual context, showing how he engaged the public issues of his day, including war.] McDermott, John J ., ed. The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition . New York: Random House, 1967. [This representative collection of James’s work includes a fine introduction to his thought by McDermott and an annotated bibliography of James’s...
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The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...Volume One: Eclipse of Certainty, 1820–1880 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Gerald Myers . William James: His Life and Thought . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Ralph Barton Perry . The Thought and Character of William James . 2 vols. Boston: Little Brown, 1935. Simon, Linda . Genuine Reality: A Life of William James . New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Taylor, Eugene . William James on Exceptional Mental States . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. See also: Ecopsychology ; Perennial Philosophy ; Swedenborg,...
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Paul Jerome Croce
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
...Croce, Paul Jerome . Science and Religion in the Era of William James . vol. 1, Eclipse of Certainty . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Feinstein, Howard . Becoming William James . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984. Myers, Gerald . William James: His Life and Thought . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. Perry, Ralph Barton . The Thought and Character of William James , 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1935. Taylor, Eugene . William James on Exceptional Mental States . New York: Charles Scribner's...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
..., William ( 1842–1910 ). American scholar whose contribution to the study of religion derives from his refusal to treat physiology, psychology, and philosophy as separate disciplines. What remains a major contribution to the psychology of religion, James's The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ), also benefited from the fact that he was equipped with ‘religious musicality’. Always tending to be individualistic, The Varieties dwells on personal religious life rather than on institutional or social expressions. He introduced the phrase, ‘stream of...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) American psychologist and philosopher . James was born into a wealthy New York family, and surrounded from an early age by a humanitarian, literary, and scholarly family life (his father was a theologian, and his brother the novelist Henry James ). James had already spent years in Europe and begun an education as an artist, when he entered Harvard medical school in 1863 , and he travelled in Brazil and Europe before he graduated with a medical degree in 1869 . There followed years lecturing both on psychology and philosophy....
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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
...Jacques . A Stroll with William James (New York, 1983). Bird, Graham . William James (New York, 1986). Corti, W. R. , ed. The Philosophy of William James (Hamburg, 1976). Cotkin, George . William James, Public Philosopher (Baltimore, 1990). Edie, James . William James and Phenomenology (Bloomington, Ind., 1987). Gale, Richard M. The Divided Self of William James (Cambridge, 1999). Goodman, Russell . Wittgenstein and William James (Cambridge, UK, 2002). Levinson, Henry S. The Religious Investigations of William James (Chapel Hill, N.C.,...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ), Pragmatist philosopher. A professor at Harvard, he held that we have a ‘right to believe in’ the existence of God (because it makes us ‘better off’), but no scientific certainty of the validity of that belief. In The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ) he drew the now familiar distinction between ‘once-born’ and ‘twice-born’ religious types, and made a scientific analysis of...
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
...substance, a theory extended by Bertrand Russell in his Analysis of Mind ( 1921 ). James's work as Gifford Lecturer in Natural Religion at Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902 resulted in Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ), his enduringly important account of the psychological character of subjective religious states. F. H. Burkhardt was general editor of The Works of William James (7 volumes, 1975–9 ). R. B. Perry's The Thought and Character of William James appeared in two volumes in 1935...
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The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ). American psychologist . William James was born in New York, the brother of Henry James the novelist. He started his study of medicine at Harvard, but broke off to explore the Amazon with Louis Agassiz ; subsequently he went to Europe to study with Helmholtz , Virchow , and Bernard . He took his MD from Harvard in 1869 but never practiced. Indeed, his studies seem to have induced a neurosis and he remained at home for some time as a semi-invalid. For just over a year in 1872 he taught physiology at Harvard, but then moved...
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T. L. S. Sprigge
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...aimed to put into satisfactory concepts what James thought could not be adequately conceptualized). Prof. T. L. S. Sprigge A. J. Ayer , The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James (London, 1968). Part 2 on James. Graham Bird , William James (London, 1986). Marcus Ford , William James's Philosophy: A New Perspective (Amherst, Mass., 1982). Bruce Kuklick , The Rise of American Philosophy (New Haven, Conn., 1977), pt. 3. Gerald Myers , William James: His Life and Thought (New Haven, Conn., 1986)....
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Ian M. L. Hunter
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
...in the 20th century, approached scientifically. It raises many issues that still challenge scientific enquiry. (Published 1987) See also emotion . Ian M. L. Hunter Allen, G. W. (1967). William James: A Biography . James, W. (1890). Principles of Psychology , 2 vols. —— (1907). Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking . Myers, G. E. (2001). William James: His Life and Thought...
James, William (1842–1910) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
..., William ( 1842–1910 ) , son of Henry James, Sr., was born in New York City and spent his boyhood, with his brother Henry and two other brothers, in private study in Europe and at Newport. In 1860–1 he tested one of his apparent aptitudes by studying painting under W. M. Hunt at Newport, but he abandoned this career to study at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (1861–4), and then at Harvard Medical School, which he left to accompany Agassiz on an expedition to collect zoological specimens in Brazil (1865–6). After another year in the Medical School, and...
