The Naval History of Great Britain, From ... 1793, to ... 1820, With an Account of the Origin and Increase of the British Navy; Volume 1

Filosofo e psicologo statunitense (1842-1910), fratello del romanziere Henry. Dopo aver studiato negli USA e in Europa, iniziò la carriera accademica come "instructor in physiology" alla Harvard University, dove fondò il primo laboratorio statunitense di psicologia sperimentale. James pose le basi del funzionalismo e fu uno dei principali assertori del pragmatismo. Tra le sue opere: The principles of psychology (1890), Psychology: briefer course (1892), The will to believe (1897), Talks to teachers on psychology and to students on some of life's ideals (1899), The varieties of religious experience (1902), Pragmatism (1907), The meaning of truth (1909), A pluralistic universe (1909), Some problems of philosophy (1911), Essays in radical empiricism (1912).