Fantastic to learn from Wm James. Always the teacher.

5:10 Not surprised that James supported free will , anyone with good observation see that

This was a fascinating video. I think it would have been much better though if you cited scientific papers (in both psychology and cognitive science) for each of the 9 points that resonate with James’ views. For example, I really would have loved to have read papers that reveal that there is evidence that aligns with James’ “stream of consciousness” view of cognition.

I've read his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. I read it many years ago when I was a student taking courses in the philosophy of religion and religions of the world. I really enjoyed it then. I taught a small section of it a number of years ago when I was assigned a great books course to teach. I used a reader with works focused on the theme: the good life. One chapter from the James book was in that reader: "The Religion of Healthy Mindedness." This also led us into discussions of current (at the time) positive belief systems many people are attracted to such as the gospel of prosperity and the law of attraction and a critique of this trend by Barbara Ehrenreich. That was only one area we discussed in class. There were many others. I don't know if it still is, but back then an optimist or positive thinking trend was also heavily present in psychology. Most of the selections in the reader were from philosophers, but I chose it because it also brought in other disciplines. Actually, this also ties in with your topic of science fraud as Seligman, with his psychology of optimism, used questionable science to support his claims.

Great video. I have always thought William James was the most underrated psychologist. I think it is too bad that today's psychology has gone so deeply into experimentation as the only way of doing psychology has lost the insights of James. He is hardly even mentioned in our textbooks. It is as if our texts are just a "blooming, buzzing, confusion" as James described the world seen from the eyes of a baby. All the best!

@socialneuro

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Much more James content is on the way!

I would love love love to see a video about Henri Bergson!!

Thank you.

@socialneuro

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

thanks for sharing can you please make a comprhensive video what you have said in the video

@socialneuro

Жыл бұрын

I will try my best

Great series, I look forward to watching the next videos! Couldn't you also make an argument for Wilhelm Wundt to be the Einstein of Psychology?

@socialneuro

Жыл бұрын

Wundt is definitely an important figure but I don't see his theoretical ideas having the lasting impact that James's had. But Wundt is definitely a great topic for a future video.

@SLK-ep4fc

10 ай бұрын

@@socialneuro how about Wilhelm Reich?!

But the importance of habits go all the way back to Aristotle. He meant that morality is based on virtues internalized through habits - virtue ethics.

Hard to see how he was right about free will given causation still being unchallenged as to how things are.

one not well known addition, James was also the first psychedelic philosopher, having written the Varieties of Religious Experience lectures after taking mescaline which he acquired from the Smithsonian who possessed it as a gift from American Southwest First Nations people. This predated Huxley by 50 years. His concept of noetic experience from that account is still the most characteristic of psychedelic experience IMO.

@socialneuro

7 ай бұрын

Very interesting! I just saw an article published in the past few months in the journal William James Studies about this. Have you seen it?

@locochingadero

7 ай бұрын

@@socialneuro thanks so much, I will check this out. I read James in the 90s in grad school but I am never surprised when modern neuroscience and imagining validate his fundamental intuitions about the mind, very satisfying.

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William James wasn't a psychologist, he had a physiology phd

@christopherhamilton3621

Ай бұрын

Yet he wrote a book about the principles of psychology… He may not have been a practising psychologist: is that your point or is it a qualification you’re concerned about?

Wow. How do you manage to call him an Einstein of psychology when 5 of those theorems are flawed or even completely wrong? Einsteins only mistake was believing he was mistaken... About his theories, not in every opinion ever held.

@brooksfaucette296

5 ай бұрын

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@AnneAslaug

5 ай бұрын

@@brooksfaucette296 No, not at all, I was very happy to find this channel in my recommendations! I have watched more videos here without having any negative to say than not, and I find that learning the history of any given subject is important. I DO have a problem with sociology and psychology desperately wanting to be sciences when they are not. Any field of today has come from long lines of people contributing in prosesses contiuing through this day. But not all of it keeps beeing valid... 🙂🙃

@braintrash9765

Ай бұрын

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@AnneAslaug

Ай бұрын

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James wasn't a psychologist

@christopherhamilton3621

Ай бұрын

Repetitious… Anything else?