(1842-1910)
Psychologist and Philosopher.

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Influences

• Student of:
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• Students: E. L. Thorndike, Hall
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• Time Period: The Great Schools

Education

• Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, studied anatomy, chemistry and physiology, 1863.
• MD Harvard Medical School 1869.

Career

• 1872 Teacher at Harvard.
• 1879 Opened the first psychology laboratory in the United States.
• 1885 Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
• 1889 Professor of Psychology, Harvard

Major Contributions

• Gifford Lectures on 'National Religion' delivered at Edinburgh University, 1901-2
• 'Pragmatism' given at the Lowell Institute, Boston in 1906.

Greatly honored in his time, known by many as a profound and original thinker and considered to be by many in his time the most widely known of American scholars.

Publications

• Principles of Psychology, 1890. Establish psychology as a separate science.
• Collected Essays and Reviews (1892);
• The Will to Believe and Other Essays (1897);
• Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907);
• The Meaning of Truth (1909).

References: 3, 10

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