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William James is linked to the concept of the mind through his philosophical classification as a parallelist panpsychist who views the mind as having a Spinozistic relationship with matter [1], and his foundational role in early scientific psychology where he equated the mind with consciousness [2].
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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimAt the beginning of modern scientific psychology in the mid-nineteenth century, the mind was largely equated with consciousness, and introspective methods dominated the field, as seen in the work of Wilhelm Wundt (1897), Hermann von Helmholtz (1897), William James (1890), and Alfred Titchener (1901).
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimGustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, and William James are classified as "parallelist panpsychists" who endorse a Spinozistic parallelism between mind and matter, where every physical entity has mental attributes and vice versa.