William James

The William James Reader Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Radical Empiricism; The Meaning of Truth; What is an Emotion?; The Varieties of Religious Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: 'Essays in Radical Empiricism', 'The Meaning of Truth', 'The Varieties of Religious Experience', and 'What is an Emotion?' These books helped forge a field and remain as important today as when they were first written!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781633845435
• Artikelnr.: 44934531

Autorenporträt

William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist. He was born on January 11, 1842, and died on August 26, 1910. He was the first teacher in the United States to teach a psychology course. James and Charles Sanders Peirce started the philosophical school called pragmatism, and James is also considered one of the founders of functional psychology. James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and he started teaching in those fields. However, he was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was becoming a science. James's knowledge of the work of people like Hermann Helmholtz in Germany and Pierre Janet in France helped him get scientific psychology classes started at Harvard University. In the 1875-1876 school year, he taught his first experimental psychology class at Harvard.