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INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM JAMES: Introduction to William James

INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM JAMES

Introduction to William James

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CHRONOLOGY
OF
WILLIAM JAMES’S LIFE

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