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William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, he is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers and is often dubbed the "father of American psychology".
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| William James | Academic advisor | Louis Agassiz | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Born | (1842-01-11)January 11, 1842 New York City, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Died | August 26, 1910(1910-08-26) (aged 68) Chocorua, New Hampshire, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Education | Harvard University | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Era | 19th-/20th-century philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Institutions | Harvard University | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Main interests | Pragmatism | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Main interests | psychology | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Main interests | philosophy of religion | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Main interests | epistemology | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Main interests | semantics | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | Will to believe doctrine | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | crisis of self-surrender | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | pragmatic theory of truth | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | radical empiricism | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | James–Lange theory of emotion | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | psychologist's fallacy | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | brain usage theory | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | dilemma of determinism (the distinction between hard determinism and soft determinism) | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | stream of consciousness | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | James's theory of the self | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable ideas | the term multiverse | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | Mary Whiton Calkins | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | Morris Raphael Cohen | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | W. E. B. Du Bois | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | G. Stanley Hall | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | Learned Hand | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | William Ernest Hocking | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | Edwin Holt | 1.00 | infobox |
| William James | Notable students | Horace Kallen | 1.00 | infobox |
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