William James
1842 – 1910 · United States · Philosophy, Psychology
Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.
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- Ernest Holmes
1887 – 1960 · New Thought, Philosophy
Varieties of Religious Experience is the empirical warrant Holmes cites for mind-cure.
- John Dewey
1859 – 1952 · Philosophy, Education
Pragmatism moves from James's psychology into Dewey's theory of inquiry and schooling.
- Sigmund Freud
1856 – 1939 · Medicine, Philosophy
James hosted and read Freud at Clark in 1909, brokering psychoanalysis into America.
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