William James
Vilijam Džejms (; Njujork, 11. januar 1842 — Čokorua, 26. avgust 1910) je bio pionir američke filozofije i psihologije.

Biografija 
Rođen je kao najstarije od petero dece. Njegov brat Henri postao je jedan od svetskih romanopisaca, a sestra Alis čuvena je po svojim dnevnicima.

Sa 18 godina, studirao je godinu dana umetnost, zatim hemiju, da bi dve godine posle prešao na medicinu i diplomirao 1869. godine.

Godine 1885. postao je profesor filozofije.

Predavao je fiziologiju, anatomiju, filozofiju i psihologiju na univerzitetu Harvard. Osnivač je pragmatizma, po kojem je osnovni kriterijum spoznaje njegova praktična vrednost. Psihički život posmatrao je kao neprekidan tok misli. Izneo je vlastite poglede o pamćenju i osećajima. Jedan je od utemeljitelja američke naučne psihologije. Njegova "Hačela psihologije" smatraju se još uvek najboljim udžbenikom, a osim te knjige najpoznatiji je po svojoj teoriji emocija.

Glavna dela 
 Ogledi u radikalnom empirizmu
 Značenje istine
 Pluralistički Univerzum
 Pragmatizam: Novo ime za neke stare načine razmišljanja
 Principi psihologije
 Neki problemi filozofije: Početak uvoda u filozofiju
 Vrste religioznog iskustva
 Volja za verovanjem

Literatura 

 Essays Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James, by his Colleagues at Columbia University (London, 1908)
 James Sloan Allen, Wiiliam James on Habit, Will, Truth, and the Meaning of Life (2014). Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, 
 Émile Boutroux] William James (New York, 1912)
 Werner Bloch, Der Pragmatismus von James und Schiller nebst Exkursen über Weltanschauung und über die Hypothese (Leipzig, 1913)
 K. A. Busch, William James als Religionsphilosoph (Göttingen, 1911)
 Jacques Barzun. A Stroll with William James (1983). Harper and Row: 
 Deborah Blum. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (2006). Penguin Press, 
 Wesley Cooper. The Unity of William James's Thought (2002). Vanderbilt University Press, 
 Howard M. Feinstein. Becoming William James (1984). Cornell University Press, 
 Théodore Flournoy, La Philosophie de William James (Saint-Blaise, 1911)
 Sergio Franzese, The Ethics of Energy. William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus, Ontos Verlag, 2008
 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
 James Huneker, "A Philosophy for Philistines" in his The Pathos of Distance (New York, 1913)
 Henry James's A Small Boy and Others (1913) and Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
 H. V. Knox, Philosophy of William James (London, 1914)
Louis Menand. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001). Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, . 
 Ménard, Analyse et critique des principes de la psychologie de W. James (Paris, 1911) analyzes the lives and relationship between James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.
Gerald E. Myers. William James: His Life and Thought (1986). Yale University Press, 2001, paperback: . 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, .
 Ralph Barton Perry, Present Philosophical Tendencies (New York, 1912)
 Robert D. Richardson. William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (2006). Houghton Mifflin, 
Robert D. Richardson, ed. The Heart of William James (2010). Harvard U. Press, 
 Jane Roberts. The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The View of William James (1978. Prentice-Hall. .)
 Josiah Royce, William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life (New York, 1911)
 Linda Simon. Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998). Harcourt Brace & Company, 
 Michel Weber. Whitehead’s Pancreativism. Jamesian Applications. Ontos Verlag, 2011, 
Richard Wiseman (2012). Rip it up: The radically new approach to changing your life. London, UK: Macmillan

Vanjske veze 

 
 William James Society
 William James Studies 
 Emory University: William James  – major collection of essays and works online
  William James correspondence from the Historic Psychiatry Collection, Menninger Archives, Kansas Historical Society
 Harvard University: Life is in the Transitions: William James, 1842–1910  – online exhibition from Houghton Library
 Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: William James
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: William James
 William James on Information Philosopher
 William James: Looking for a Way Out 
 Great Men and the Environment: William James 
 "Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent : William James and American Functional Psychology"
 "Oh Those Fabulous James Boys!" article from Psychology Today March/April 1995
 New York Times obituary
 
 
 A short interview with Robert D. Richardson, author of the biography William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
 Biography of William James 
 European William James Project : Centre de philosophie pratique « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes »

Rođeni 1842.
Umrli 1910.
Američki filozofi
Američki psiholozi