CHRONOLOGY
OF
WILLIAM JAMES’S LIFE
1842 | January 11, born in New York City |
1857-58 | Student at the College of Boulogne-sur-Mer |
1859-60 | Student at University of Geneva |
1860 | Studied painting under William H. Hunt at Newport, Rhode Island |
1861 | Enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard |
1863 | Enrolled in the Medical School at Harvard |
1865 | Participated in the Thayer expedition to Brazil under Louis Agassiz |
1867-68 | Studied physiology at the University of Berlin 1869 Earned his doctor of medicine degree from Harvard |
1872 | Appointed instructor of physiology at Harvard |
1875-92 | Taught courses to graduate students on physiology and psychology and directed experimental research at the Lawrence Scientific School, founded first experimental laboratory in psychology in America |
1878 | Married |
1879-80 | Offered first course in philosophy, “Philosophy of Evolution’ |
1880 | Appointed assistant professor of philosophy |
1884 | Contributed to the establishment of the American Society for Psychical Research |
1885 | Named professor of philosophy |
1889 | Named professor of psychology |
1890 | Published The Principles of Psychology |
1892 | Published Psychology, Briefer Course |
1896 | Published Will to Believe |
1901-02 | Gifford lectures at Edinburgh, resulting in publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience in 1902 |
1906-07 | Lectured at Lowell Institute in Boston and at Columbia University, lectures published as Pragmatism |
1910 | August 26, died in Chocorua, New Hampshire |