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WILLIAM JAMES

• William James (born 11 January 1842 at Astor
  House in New York, died 26 August 1910)
• He was an American psychologist and philosopher
• William Jamess most important theories are
• - Pragmatism
• - Functionalism
• - Stream of consciousness

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PRAGMATISM
Pragratism asks its usual questionGrant an
idea or belief to be true, what concrete
diffrence will its being true make in anyones
actual life? How will the truth be realized? What
experiences will be different from those which
would obtain in the belief were false? what., in
short, is the truths cash-value in experiental
terms? William James
Human thought is understood as a pratical problem
solving, which proceeds by testing rival
hypoteses against experience, as a basis for
action. Pragmatism has value only if it is
applied James elaborated the concept of
truth Beliefs are not true until they have been
made true by verification
Truth is mutable Thruth is relative to a
conceptual scheme.
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FUNCTIONALISM The primary interest is in the
function if mental process, including
consciusness The term is used in two different
ways
The study of how mental process operates in the
evolution of the species
The study of how mental process operates
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• STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• Like a bird fliying throught the air and then
  pearching for a meoment then taking wing again.
  Flight punctuated by moments of
• William James
• The Stream of consciusness is a literary
  technique wich was elaborated at the beginning of
  1900
• The Stream of consciusness is the expression of
  thoughts exactly as they pass through your mind
• In literature the stream of consciusness is
  written without the structure our thoughts have
  in formal writing
• The Stream of consciusness was elaborated for the
  first time in The Principles of Psychology

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• WORK MADE BY
• MARGARIT Giacomo
• DE LELLIS Salvatore