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Books by William James

William James (1842–1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who is regarded as the father of American psychology and one of the founders of pragmatism. He taught at Harvard for thirty-five years and wrote The Principles of Psychology (1890), Pragmatism (1907), and The Meaning of Truth (1909) in addition to The Varieties of Religious Experience. His brother was the novelist Henry James. Despite poor health throughout his life, James maintained an extraordinarily productive intellectual career and is considered one of the most influential thinkers in American intellectual history.