Предавао је физиологију, анатомију, филозофију и психологију на универзитету Харвард. Оснивач је прагматизма, по којем је основни критеријум спознаје његова практична вредност. Психички живот посматрао је као непрекидан ток мисли. Изнео је властите погледе о памћењу и осећајима. Један је од утемељитеља америчке научне психологије. Његова "Hачела психологије" сматрају се још увек најбољим уџбеником, а осим те књиге најпознатији је по својој теорији емоција.
Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine (the Ingersoll Lecture, 1897)
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality (1956) Dover Publications, ISBN0-486-20291-7
Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (1899), Dover Publications 2001: ISBN0-486-41964-9, IndyPublish.com 2005: ISBN1-4219-5806-6
critical edition, Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers, editors. Harvard University Press 1976: ISBN0-674-26717-6 (includes commentary, notes, enumerated emendations, appendices with English translation of "La Notion de Conscience")
Letters of William James, 2 vols. (1920)
Collected Essays and Reviews (1920)
Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James, 2 vols. (1935), Vanderbilt University Press 1996 reprint: ISBN0-8265-1279-8 (contains some 500 letters by William James not found in the earlier edition of the Letters of William James)
William James on Psychical Research (1960)
The Correspondence of William James, 12 vols. (1992–2004) University of Virginia Press, ISBN0-8139-2318-2
Psychology: Briefer Course (rev. and condensed Principles of Psychology), The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Talks to Teachers and Students, Essays (nine others)
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, Some Problems of Philosophy, Essays
The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition (1978). University of Chicago Press, 912 pp., ISBN0-226-39188-4
Pragmatism, Essays in Radical Empiricism, and A Pluralistic Universe complete; plus selections from other works
In 1975, Harvard University Press began publication of a standard edition of The Works of William James.
Референце
^Goodman, Russell (20. 10. 2019). „William James”. Ур.: Zalta, Edward N. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Приступљено 2. 6. 2019.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
^J. H. Korn, R. Davis, S. F. Davis: "Historians' and chairpersons' judgements of eminence among psychologists". American Psychologist, 1991, Volume 46, pp. 789–792.
^James, William (2009). The Varieties of Religious Experience. The Library of America. стр. 74—120. ISBN978-1-59853-062-9.
Литература
Essays Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James, by his Colleagues at Columbia University (London, 1908)
James Sloan Allen, ed., William James on Habit, Will, Truth, and the Meaning of Life (2014). Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, ISBN978-1-929490-45-5
Margo Bistis, "Remnant of the Future: William James' Automated Utopia", in Norman M. Klein and Margo Bistis, The Imaginary 20th Century (Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2016).
Gerald E. Myers. William James: His Life and Thought (1986). Yale University Press, 2001, paperback: ISBN0-300-08917-1. 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, ISBN0-7914-7239-6.
R. B. Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies (New York, 1912)
Robert D. Richardson, ed. The Heart of William James (2010). Harvard U. Press, ISBN978-0-674-05561-2
Jane Roberts. The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The View of William James (1978. Prentice-Hall. ISBN0-13-018515-9.)
Josiah Royce, William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life (New York, 1911)
J. Michael Tilley, "William James: Living Forward and the Development of Radical Empiricism," In Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy: Anglophone Philosophy, edited by Jon Stewart, 2012, Ashgate Publishing, 87–98.
Michel Weber, "James's Mystical Body in the Light of the Transmarginal Field of Consciousness", in 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, pp. 7–37.
Wiseman, R. (2012). Rip it up: The radically new approach to changing your life. London, UK: Macmillan