William S. James

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:philosopher
psychologist
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:American_Psychological_Association
gptkb:Society_for_Psychical_Research
Harvard_Psychological_Studies
gptkbp:awards Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
Honorary_degree_from_Harvard_University
Member_of_the_American_Philosophical_Society
gptkbp:born January 11, 1842
gptkbp:children gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:William_James_Jr.
Robert_James
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:James-Lange_theory_of_emotion
The exploration of consciousness
The development of educational psychology
The concept of the self
The concept of pluralism
The advocacy for mental health awareness
The analysis of belief systems
The concept of the will to believe
The examination of the mind-body relationship
The idea of radical empiricism
The idea of stream of consciousness
The impact on humanistic psychology
The influence on existential psychology
The notion of free will
The promotion of psychology as a science
The study of habit
The study of religious experiences
The role in the establishment of psychology as a discipline.
gptkbp:died August 26, 1910
gptkbp:field psychology
philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William S. James
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:John_Dewey
gptkb:Sigmund_Freud
gptkb:Carl_Rogers
gptkb:William_James_Sidis
Abraham Maslow
Gordon Allport
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Charles_Sanders_Peirce
Immanuel Kant
gptkbp:knownFor pragmatism
functional psychology
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Alice_G._James
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience
The Principles of Psychology
A Pluralistic Universe