Educational Psychology—Limitations and Possibilities

CONCLUSION
William James 129
William James was a man both of his time and ahead of his time. He had the good fortune to
be born into wealth and the equal good fortune during his life to come into contact with many
of the major thinkers of his day. James was an insider, and at the same time the progression
of his thinking toward the spiritual led him to the role of an outsider during his lifetime. His
ideas have, since his death, been adapted, altered, and interpreted to support major positivists and
postformalists alike. It is a mark of his importance that his intellectual and theoretical legacies
are so complex and influential.
REFERENCES
Biography, Chronology and Photographs of William James. William James Web site. F. Pajares (Ed.). Emory
University. Retrieved April 3, 2005, from http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/jphotos.html.
Bjork, D. W. (1983). The Compromised Scientist: William James in the Development of American Psychology.
New York: Columbia University Press.
———. (1988). William James: The Center of His Vision. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cotkin, G. (1990). William James, Public Philosopher. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Edie, J. M. (1987). William James and Phenomenology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Feinstein, H. M. (1984). Becoming William James. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
James, W. (1890). Principles of Psychology (2 vols). Retrieved April 3, 2005, from http://psychclassics.
yorku.ca/James/Principles/index.htm.
———. (1896/1967). The Will to Believe. In J. McDermott (Ed.), The Writings of William James: A
Comprehensive Edition. New York: Random House.
———. (1899/1958). Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals. Introduction
by Paul Woodring. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc.
———. (1904). A World of Pure Experience. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods.
1, 533–543, 561–570. Retrieved April 2, 2005, from http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/
experience.htm.
———. (1907). Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. New York: Longmans,
Green and Co. Retrieved April 3, 2005, from http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/∼lward/James/James 1907/
James 1907 toc.html.
———. (1911). The Meaning of Truth. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. Retrieved April 2, 2005, from
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/∼lward/James/James 1911/James 1911 toc.html.
———. (1912). Essays in Radical Empiricism. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. Retrieved April 3,
2005, from http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/∼lward/James/James 1912/James 1912 toc.html.
Madison, G. B. (1988). The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity: Figures and Themes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press.
Matthiessen, F. O. (1961). The James Family: A Group Biography together with selections from the writings
of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry, and Alice James. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Myers, G. E. (1986). William James: His Life and Thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Spring, J. (2005). The American School: 1642–2004 (6th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.
William James Dies: Great Psychologist. New York Times, August 27, 1910. Retrieved April 3, 2005, from
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0111.html.