William James

William James was a founder of the doctrine of pragmatism in philosophy, and is also credited with helping establish psychology as a distinct discipline. In both philosophy and psychology James was a functionalist, seeking to understand things by discovering their function.

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Cognition; James, William; Functionalism (psychology)

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