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.
William James was born at the Astor House in New York City on January 11, 1842. Among his most influential books are The Principles of Psychology, a groundbreaking text in the field of psychology Essays in Radical Empiricism, an important text in philosophy and The Varieties of Religious Experience, an investigation of different forms of religious experience, including theories on mind-cure. He wrote widely on many topics, including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Instead, he pursued his interests in psychology and then philosophy. James trained as a physician and taught anatomy at Harvard, but never practiced medicine. and the brother of both the prominent novelist Henry James and the diarist Alice James. īorn into a wealthy family, James was the son of the Swedenborgian theologian Henry James Sr. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, and Marilynne Robinson. James's work has influenced philosophers and academics such as Émile Durkheim, W. E. B.
James also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. Ī survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked James's reputation in second place, Īfter Wilhelm Wundt, who is widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology. A Review of General Psychology analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century. Īlong with Charles Sanders Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology". William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
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