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William James

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Category: History & Society
Born:
January 11, 1842, New York, New York, U.S.
Died:
August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire (aged 68)
Notable Family Members:
father Henry James
brother Henry James
Subjects Of Study:
psychology
free will
neutral monism
religious belief
religious experience
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William James (born January 11, 1842, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of pragmatism and a founder of the psychological movement of functionalism. James was the eldest son of Henry James, an idiosyncratic and voluble man whose philosophical interests attracted him to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. One of William’s brothers was the novelist Henry James. The elder Henry James held an “antipathy to all ecclesiasticisms which he expressed with abounding scorn and irony throughout all his later years.” Both his physical and ...(100 of 2488 words)

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