William jamess the principles of psychology is widely considered to be the most important text in the history of modern psychology. The phenomena are such things as we call feelings, desires, cognitions, reasonings, decisions, and the like. The principles of psychology is a twovolume introduction to the study of the human mind. I would like to thank the many members of the behavioral community who supported the. Its author was not only completely conversant with the psychological literature in english, but with that in french, german, and.
The first educator to offer a psychology course in the united states, james was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the william james january 11, 1842 august 26, 1910 was an american philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Publication date 1890 topics psychology publisher new york. The principles of psychology, volume 2 of 2 by william james.
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