History’s Influence: William James, America’s First Psychologist (original) (raw)

This paper examines how the life and works of one individual, William James, “America’s first psychologist”, have influenced the current practice of modern psychology. Although James lived in the late nineteenth century, his ideas remain alive and vibrant in modern psychology, particularly among modern psychology’s emerging subfields and those arguing for the fusion of phenomenology, embodiment and cognitive neuroscience in the renewed search for a science of consciousness (Taylor, 2010). While James made many significant contributions to the contemporary practice of modern psychology, his text, The Principles of Psychology, is arguably the most important book in all of psychology’s history (Goodwin, 2008).

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