William James

William James (1842-1910) Psychologist and Philosopher. Is the one who teaches Thorndike and Hall.

Students: E. L. Thorndike, Hall
Time Period: The Great Schools

Education:
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, studied anatomy, chemistry and physiology, 1863.
MD Harvard Medical School 1869.

Career:
1872 Teacher at Harvard.
1879 Opened the first psychology laboratory in the United States.
1885 Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
1889 Professor of Psychology, Harvard

Major Contributions:
Gifford Lectures on 'National Religion' delivered at Edinburgh University, 1901-2
'Pragmatism' given at the Lowell Institute, Boston in 1906.
Greatly honored in his time, known by many as a profound and original thinker and considered to be by many in his time the most widely known of American scholars.

Publications

Principles of Psychology, 1890. Establish psychology as a separate science.
Collected Essays and Reviews (1892);
The Will to Believe and Other Essays (1897);
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907);
The Meaning of Truth (1909).