William James, the philosopher, scientist, psychologist, brought it off with a lambent lucidity in 1901-02, when he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion in Edinburgh and later ...

William James is honored as the first great American psychologist, an important philosopher and a pioneer of modern religious thought. But his lifelong engagement with the really significant ...

William James was an intellectual force of nature in 19th century America. Trained as a medical doctor, he saw links between the life sciences, psychology and philosophy, and was a seminal thinker ...

His name was William James and he later become known as William of Albany. “Money is like manure,” Thornton Wilder once said. “It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around ...

Patriarch William James is a quintessential American success story. He was a dirt-poor Irish farm boy who sailed to the new world with a few coins in his pocket, and through grit and good luck as ...