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JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES, See also:WILLIAM (1842–1910) , See also:American philosopher, son of the Swedenborgian theologian See also:Henry James, and See also:brother of the novelist Henry James, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:January 1842 at New See also:York See also:City. He graduated M.D. at Harvard in 1870. Two years after he was appointed a lecturer at Harvard in See also:anatomy and See also:physiology, and later in See also:psychology and See also:philosophy. Subsequently he became assistant See also:professor of philosophy (188o–1885), professor (1885–1889), professor of psychology (1889–1897) and professor of philosophy (1897–1907). In 1899–1901 he delivered the See also:Gifford lectures on natural See also:religion at the university of See also:Edinburgh, and in 1908 the Hibbert lectures at See also:Manchester See also:College, See also:Oxford. With the See also:appearance of his Principles of Psychology (2 vols., 1890), James at once stepped into the front See also:rank of psychologists as a See also:leader of the See also:physical school, a position which he maintained not only by the brilliance of his analogies but also by the freshness and unconventionality of his See also:style. In See also:metaphysics he upheld the idealist position from the empirical standpoint. Beside the Principles of Psychology, which appeared in a shorter See also:form in 1892 (Psychology), his See also:chief See also:works are: The Will to Believe (1897); Human See also:Immortality (See also:Boston, 1898); Talks to Teachers (1899); The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York, 1902); See also:Pragmatism—a New Name for some Old Ways of Thinking (1907); A Pluralistic Universe (1909; Hibbert lectures), in which, though he still attacked the See also:hypothesis of See also:absolutism, he admitted it as a legitimate alternative. He received honorary degrees from See also:Padua (1893), See also:Princeton (1896), Edinburgh (1902), Harvard (1905). He died on the 27th of See also:August 1910.

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