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Published works

THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY (1890) http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/ was published about the time Freud first published and was used as a text at Harvard.

PRAGMATISM: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5116 was a series of lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston (November and December, 1906), and at Columbia University, New York (January, 1907).

ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM needs a mention.

Popular Culture reference

Captain Picard makes a brief reference to a William James in Star Trek The Next Generation, episode Samaritan Snare. Found a clip on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8LnGDKcdk

I might add it in but it doesn't seem noteworthy, and I might be biased being a ST fan. Walkingstick3 (talk) 16:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

epistolary talent

Under Early Life the family of William James is described to have "epistolary" talent. The use of this adjective appears pretentious. The explanatory pop-up window refers to epistolary novels and makes sense for novels, but not as an explanation for talents. It is not clear to me what the author intends to say and either ought to be deleted of improved upon. Hskoppek (talk) 07:35, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Sources

  • [https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/5/7/william-james-at-harvard-pwhat-doctrines/#:~:text=After%20less%20than%20three%20years,distinguished%20himself%20as%20a%20student.] Harvard Crimson (use with caution; part of a series)