Abstract:

By explaining the natural science point of departure in the psychology of William James and examining the process of his investigations and breakthroughs, the paper argues that there is no doubt a fundamental turnabout in James’s psychological thinking. By further comparison with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, it points out that the potential theoretical significance of James’s psychological thinking can only be expressed and developed by borrowing from Husserl’s phenomenology his theoretical framework and conceptual instruments. The conclusion of the paper suggests the phenomenological turn in James’s psychological thinking greatly helps to understand psychology’s disciplinary identity and its theoretical reconstruction.

Key words: William James, psychology, metaphysics, radical empiricism, phenomenological turn

摘要：

本文在阐明詹姆斯心理学的出发点、并考察其心理学思想的探索和突破的基础上指出，詹姆斯关于心理学的思想历程无疑经历了一个根本的转向；又结合与胡塞尔现象学的比较认为，转向之后的詹姆斯的心理学思想的潜在意义，只有借用胡塞尔现象学的思想框架和概念工具，才能得到有效的表达和进一步的发展。文章最后还暗示了詹姆斯心理学思想的现象学转向对于理解并构建心理学的学科同一性的潜在意义。

关键词: 詹姆斯, 心理学, 形而上学, 彻底经验主义, 现象学转向