James wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.īorn into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James, and the diarist Alice James. James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism.
Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the greatest figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". William James (JanuAugust 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician.
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