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In 2002, James was listed as the 14th most eminent psychology author of the 20th century, with his theory on emotion (the James-Lange Theory) presented in this book being a contributing factor for that ranking. [9] In areas outside of psychology, the book was also to have a major impact.
William James in Brazil, 1865. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City on January 11, 1842. He was the son of Henry James Sr., a noted and independently wealthy Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day.
James, William: "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" – International Journal of Ethics, volume 1, number 3 (April 1891), pp. 330–354 The essay was also featured in: James, William: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. First edition: Longmans, Green, 1897.
James's pragmatic theory is a synthesis of correspondence theory of truth and coherence theory of truth, with an added dimension. Truth is verifiable to the extent that thoughts and statements correspond with actual things, as well as "hangs together," or coheres, fits as pieces of a puzzle might fit together, and these are in turn verified by ...
James put forth the doctrine because he thought ordinary empiricism, inspired by the advances in physical science, has or had the tendency to emphasize 'whirling particles' at the expense of the bigger picture: connections, causality, meaning. Both elements, James claims, are equally present in experience and both need to be accounted for.
William James [4] [14] asserts the notion as follows: "Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.
Charles Peirce: the American polymath who first identified pragmatism. Pragmatism as a philosophical movement began in the United States around 1870. [2] Charles Sanders Peirce (and his pragmatic maxim) is given credit for its development, [3] along with later 20th-century contributors, William James and John Dewey. [4]
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James.It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1901 and 1902.