Categories: Biographical notes
William James (1842 – 1910) was an American polymath. He is most famous as a psychologist and one of founders of the 'pragmatist' school of philosophy. In 1890 he published an extensive and influential textbook, 'The Principles of Psychology'.
William James's brother Henry was a famous novelist, and it has been said of the bothers that where Henry was a novelist who wrote like a psychologist (i.e., his books showed insight into human nature) James was a psychologist who wrote like a novelist (i.e., they were very readable for an academic and scientist).
