WILLIAM JAMES

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WILLIAM JAMES

• Graduate in medicine

• Dedicated in psychology and became first
  lecturer of it in The United States

• In 1873 made the first sperimental lab of
  philosophy in Harvard

• President of Society for Psychical Research
  from 1894 to 1895

(1842-1910)
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PRAGMATISM

• PRAGMA Greek word for ACTION

• it is a philosophy affirmed in the 19th and XX
  centuries in the United States

• function intellect must have an objective
  kwonledge of reality to have an effective
  action on it.

• object questions of methods or aims in the
  measure in which their risolution brings to
  act with profit and effectiveness

• main concept there is no teoretical truth but
  only a practical utility for living.

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PRAGMATISM AND WILLIAM JAMES
THEORIES

• If two different knowledges make the same
  action, the originary diversity is only
  appearance, so if same types of knowledge bring
  to different conseguences, the same identity is
  appearent

• the value of a knowledge or of a action is if
  they has got empirical and pratical conseguences.

It is good to kwon is what it is useful to human
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• this philosophy must be extended in metaphysics,
  that must be judged by the effect it produces
  in reality only considering pratical effect
  you can judge if a truth is good.

a concet can be judged only if it is able to make
pratical conseguences if it doesnt happen, this
concept cannot be a object of a judgment based on
its possible veracity.
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FUNZIONALISM

• it is a course of reseach in psychology born in
  the end of 19 century in The United States by
  William James and John Dewey

• It interpret mental phenomenon not like element
  that are separeted between them but like
  function used by organism to fit in a social
  and physical enviroment.

• It born from evolutionism

• Its crib was Chicago School (William James)

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FUNZIONALISM AND WILLIAM JAMES

• It describes the function of coscience in the
  adaptation process of individual and in the
  process of pratical live s esigencies genze

• It is inspired by Darwins evolutionistic
  theory the species develops through the
  selection of the most adapt individuals.

The conscience for James is like an organ and its
function is to drive the complicated structure of
nervous system. It has got a functional
relationship with brain to drive indivuals
actions.
The truth is the necessary.
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Mental life for James is only a organic block
that cannot be separated in single parts (memory,
intelligence, etc.). It is picked up in the
relationship with environment (practical use).