1896 SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

William James (1842-1910) was a justly famous 19th century American philosopher, psychologist and educator. He was a graduate of and professor at Harvard University for over 30 years, helping establish psychology as a scientific discipline while producing prolific writings in philosophy, religion, education and science. His major works reflect his wide-ranging interests in the human experience, freedom of choice and the meaning of human The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897); The Principles (1890); Varieties of Religious Experience (1902); and Essays in Radical Empiricism had an open min