Author:William James

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William James (1842–1910)

Pioneering American psychologist and philosopher

William James

Works

• The Principles of Psychology (1890)
• The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902) djvu for verification
• Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)
• The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism" (1909)
• A Pluralistic Universe (1909)
• Some Problems of Philosophy (1911)

Articles in The Popular Science Monthly Project

• 1. “The Association of Ideas,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, March 1880
• 2. “The Laws of Habit,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 30, February 1887
• 3. “Some Human Instincts I,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 31, June 1887
• 4. “Some Human Instincts II,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 31, September 1887

Essays

• Are We Automata?
• The Chicago School
• The Consciousness of Lost Limbs
• Does 'Consciousness' Exist?
• The Energies of Men
• Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment
• The Hidden Self
• Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine
• The Moral Equivalent of War, 1906
• The Ph.D. Octopus
• The Stream of Consciousness
• Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide
• What is an Emotion?
• What is an Instinct?
• What the Will Effects
• The Will to Believe
• A World of Pure Experience
• The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life

Other Works

• The Philippine Tangle
• Remarks at the Peace Banquet - speech given on the closing day of the World Peace Congress on October 7, 1904
• Secretary Taft a Biased Judge
• Social Value of the College-Bred - address delivered November 1907

Works about James

• “James, William (philosopher)” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “James, William,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.