William James was born January 11, 1842, in New York City, and died at his home in Chocorua, New Hampshire, on August 26, 1910. His family's wealth made travel and adventure a major part of his lifestyle while he was growing up. His education,...

William James was an esteemed scientist credited with bringing laboratory science to the study of psychology. Trained as a medical doctor and a physiologist, James insisted that mental processes--thought and consciousness--originated from physical...

William James made significant contributions to the disciplines of psychology and philosophy. His book The Principles of Psychology (1890) ushered in the modern era of American psychology by demonstrating that a truly scientific discipline has no need...

James, William [addendum] William James is to classical American philosophy as Plato was to Greek and Roman philosophy: an originating and inspirational fountainhead. Thinkers as diverse as C. S. Peirce, Josiah Royce, John Dewey and the late work of A....

William James, eminent psychologist and philosopher, was born in New York City. He, his novelist brother, Henry, and his sister were the main recipients of an unusually unsystematic education supervised by their father which consisted largely of...

Evangelistic associations targeting university students are sustained by a broad evangelical impulse to share faith in every possible way. In the early national period in the United States, for example, the determination to be aggressive about planting...

. 1842–1910. Psychologist and philosopher, and brother of novelist Henry James, he was born in New York and spent his life partly travelling and partly working at Harvard. Philosophically he is best known as a leading PRAGMATIST, though also in...

For other people named William James see William James (disambiguation) William James (January 11 1842 – August 26 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology,...

The Giants sacked Donovan McNabb nine times and Kawika Mitchell returned a fumble for a touchdown as New York took a 16-3 lead over the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth quarter on Sunday night.Lawrence Tynes kicked a 29-yard field goal with 2:03 remaining in the...

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2007. There are 282 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 24, 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.On this date:In 1882, German scientist Robert...

An Army lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq because he considers the war illegal abandoned his soldiers and disgraced himself and the service, prosecutors said Tuesday at his court-martial.A lawyer for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, however, argued that his client was acting in good...

Michael Redd scored a season-high 34 points, Mo Williams added 20 and the Milwaukee Bucks ended a seven-game losing streak against Cleveland with their first road win this season, 111-107 over the Cavaliers on Tuesday night.The Bucks hadn't beaten the Cavs since Dec. 10, 2005....

In the following essay, Boren explores the paradox in post-Darwinian American culture between pragmatism and the pervasive sense of doom characteristic of the machine age, embodied by the respective ideas of William James and Theodore Dreiser, and the subsequent experimentations with drugs by both writers.