Vilijam Džejms (engl. William James; Njujork, 11. januar 1842 — Čokorua, 26. avgust 1910) je bio pionir američke filozofije i psihologije.

Vilijam Džejms
Filozofija 19./20. veka
Zapadna psihologija i filozofija
Biografske informacije
Rođenje11. januar 1842.
Njujork, Njujork
Smrt26. avgust 1910.
Čokorua, Nju Hempšir
Filozofija
Škola/TradicijaPragmatizam
Glavni interesiPragmatizam
Psihologija
Filozofija religije
Epistemologija
Značenje

Biografija

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Rođen je kao najstarije od petero dece. Njegov brat Henri postao je jedan od svetskih romanopisaca, a sestra Alis čuvena je po svojim dnevnicima.

Sa 18 godina, studirao je godinu dana umetnost, zatim hemiju, da bi dve godine posle prešao na medicinu i diplomirao 1869. godine.

Godine 1885. postao je profesor filozofije.

Predavao je fiziologiju, anatomiju, filozofiju i psihologiju na univerzitetu Harvard. Osnivač je pragmatizma, po kojem je osnovni kriterijum spoznaje njegova praktična vrednost. Psihički život posmatrao je kao neprekidan tok misli. Izneo je vlastite poglede o pamćenju i osećajima. Jedan je od utemeljitelja američke naučne psihologije. Njegova "Hačela psihologije" smatraju se još uvek najboljim udžbenikom, a osim te knjige najpoznatiji je po svojoj teoriji emocija.

Glavna dela

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  • Ogledi u radikalnom empirizmu
  • Značenje istine
  • Pluralistički Univerzum
  • Pragmatizam: Novo ime za neke stare načine razmišljanja
  • Principi psihologije
  • Neki problemi filozofije: Početak uvoda u filozofiju
  • Vrste religioznog iskustva
  • Volja za verovanjem

Literatura

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  • Essays Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James, by his Colleagues at Columbia University (London, 1908)
  • James Sloan Allen, Wiiliam James on Habit, Will, Truth, and the Meaning of Life (2014). Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, ISBN 978-1-929490-45-5
  • Émile Boutroux] William James (New York, 1912)
  • Werner Bloch, Der Pragmatismus von James und Schiller nebst Exkursen über Weltanschauung und über die Hypothese (Leipzig, 1913)
  • K. A. Busch, William James als Religionsphilosoph (Göttingen, 1911)
  • Jacques Barzun. A Stroll with William James (1983). Harper and Row: ISBN 0-226-03869-6
  • Deborah Blum. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (2006). Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-090-4
  • Wesley Cooper. The Unity of William James's Thought (2002). Vanderbilt University Press, ISBN 0-8265-1387-5
  • Howard M. Feinstein. Becoming William James (1984). Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8642-5
  • Théodore Flournoy, La Philosophie de William James (Saint-Blaise, 1911)
  • Sergio Franzese, The Ethics of Energy. William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus, Ontos Verlag, 2008
  • Sergio Franzese & Felicitas Krämer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience. Cross-perspectives on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought XII, 2007
  • James Huneker, "A Philosophy for Philistines" in his The Pathos of Distance (New York, 1913)
  • Henry James's A Small Boy and Others (1913) and Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
  • H. V. Knox, Philosophy of William James (London, 1914)
  • Louis Menand. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001). Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-52849-7.
  • Ménard, Analyse et critique des principes de la psychologie de W. James (Paris, 1911) analyzes the lives and relationship between James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.
  • Gerald E. Myers. William James: His Life and Thought (1986). Yale University Press, 2001, paperback: ISBN 0-300-08917-1. Focuses on his psychology; includes 230 pages of notes.
  • Giuseppe Sergi L'origine dei fenomeni psichici e loro significazione biologica, Milano, Fratelli Dumolard, 1885.
  • Giuseppe Sergi Principi di Psicologie: Dolore e Piacere; Storia Naturale dei Sentimenti, Milano, Fratelli Dumolard, 1894.
  • James Pawelski. The Dynamic Individualism of William James (2007). SUNY press, ISBN 0-7914-7239-6.
  • Ralph Barton Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies (New York, 1912)
  • Robert D. Richardson. William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (2006). Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-43325-2
  • Robert D. Richardson, ed. The Heart of William James (2010). Harvard U. Press, ISBN 978-0-674-05561-2
  • Jane Roberts. The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The View of William James (1978. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-018515-9.)
  • Josiah Royce, William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life (New York, 1911)
  • Linda Simon. Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998). Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN 0-226-75859-1
  • Michel Weber. Whitehead’s Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications. Ontos Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-386838-103-0
  • Richard Wiseman (2012). Rip it up: The radically new approach to changing your life. London, UK: Macmillan

Vanjske veze

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