Author:William James (1842-1910)

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William James
(1842–1910)

William James

Works

Books

• The literary remains of the late Henry James, 1884 IA
• The Principles of Psychology (1890)
• Text-book of psychology, 1892 IA
• Is life worth living? (1896)
• The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
• Human immortality, 1898 IA
• Philosophical conceptions and practical results, 1898 IA
• Talks to teachers on psychology: and to students on some of life's ideals, 1899 IA
• On some of life's ideals: On a certain blindness in human beings. What makes a life significant, 1900 IA
• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902)
• Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) IA
• The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism" (1909) IA
• A Pluralistic Universe (1909) IA
• Memories and studies, 1911 IA
• Some Problems of Philosophy (1911) IA
• Essays in radical empiricism, 1912 IA
• The energies of men, 1914 IA
• Habit, 1914 (transcription project)
• The letters of William James, 1920 IA, IA

Essays

• Are We Automata?
• The Chicago School
• The Consciousness of Lost Limbs
• Does 'Consciousness' Exist?
• The Energies of Men
• Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment
• The Hidden Self
• Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine
• The Moral Equivalent of War, 1906
• The Ph.D. Octopus
• The Stream of Consciousness
• Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide
• What is an Emotion?
• What is an Instinct?
• What the Will Effects
• The Will to Believe
• A World of Pure Experience
• The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life

Other Works

• Louis Agassiz, 1897 IA
• Letter from William James to Eliot Norton, May 21, 1899 IA
• Letter from William James to Carl Schurz, March 16, 1900
• The Philippine Tangle
• Address to The Dedication of Germanic Museum of Harvard University (November 10, 1903)
• Remarks at the Peace Banquet - speech given on the closing day of the World Peace Congress on October 7, 1904
• Secretary Taft a Biased Judge
• Social Value of the College-Bred - address delivered November 1907

As Editor

• The foundation of ethics by John Edward Maude, 1855-1885; (1887) IA

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Association of Ideas" in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (March 1880)
• "The Laws of Habit" in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (February 1887)
• "Some Human Instincts I" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (June 1887)
• "Some Human Instincts II" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (September 1887)
• "Frederic Myers's Service to Psychology" in Popular Science Monthly, 59 (August 1901)
• "A Case of Automatic Drawing" in Popular Science Monthly, 64 (January 1904)
• "A Defence of Pragmatism: Its Mediating Office I" in Popular Science Monthly, 70 (March 1907)
• "A Defence of Pragmatism: What Pragmatism Means II" in Popular Science Monthly, 70 (April 1907)
• "On a Very Prevalent Abuse of Abstraction" in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (May 1909)
• "The Moral Equivalent of War" in Popular Science Monthly, 77 (October 1910)

Works about James

• Present philosophical tendencies by Ralph Barton Perry, 1876-1957; (1921) IA
• The philosophy of William James, drawn from his own works by Horace Meyer Kallen, 1882-1974, (1925) IA
• "James, William, LL.D., etc.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "James, William (philosopher)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "James, William," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "James, William (psychologist)," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "James, William," in American Medical Biographies, (ed.) by Howard A. Kelly & Walter L. Burrage, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co. (1920)