William James

Person · Open Library

Born

January 11, 1842

Died

August 26, 1910

Works

574

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1929-04-17

Active to

2015-06-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,042

Total plays

10,693

William James can refer to: 1) A man who performs "punk rock performance poetry" (Official Site | Facebook | Store). 2) The American psychologist and philosopher. 1) A member of the Steel City Poetry Slam in Pittsburgh PA, as well as the underground music community, William mixes the ferocity and sledgehammer subtlety of punk rock with the refined art of the literary world. Whether it's with a snarl, or a grin, he is dedicated to bringing as much passion, sincerity, and intensity to his craft as a mere mortal can. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+James">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 85,040x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,291x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,856x

4. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,963x

5. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,835x

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Quotes

• “I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
• “All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.”
• “Freedom is only necessity understood.”
• “What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, — nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.”
• “The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.”
• “Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom”

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