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William James : unfinished business.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--History.
- Psychology.
- History.
- James, William, 1842-1910.
- James, William.
- Psychology--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychology--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- APA PsycBOOKS.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1969.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This book is based on a series of lectures and discussions which constituted part of the program of the American Psychological Association's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Convention. In the spring of 1966 a committee, chaired by C. W. Bray, met in Washington to lay plans for a suitable commemoration of the anniversary. More than one member of the committee recalled the fact that the birth of the APA had been preceded by a scant year or two by the publication of the Principles of Psychology by William James. James' Principles is without question the most literate, the most provocative, and at the same time the most intelligible book on psychology that has ever appeared in English or in any other language. It consequently seemed appropriate that on a seventy-fifth anniversary we should step back to 1890, ask again some of the questions James was asking, and review our progress toward their solution. In this series we have concentrated, rightly I think, on the mind-body problem, on the instinctive basis of motivation, on the concept of awareness, and on the problem of will. To what extent did James anticipate modern phenomenology? Can we still read James and get good ideas from him? The answer, as this series shows, is that we can. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2004. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2004 dcunns.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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