William James (1842-1910) was an influential American philosopher and psychologist, and a leading thinker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His seminal work, 'Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking' (1907), is regarded as a landmark in American philosophy and a foundational text in the pragmatist movement, of which James is a primary proponent. His philosophical stance asser...