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William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism
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2022
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This book is a critical edition of William James’s Essays in Radical Empiricism. The text has been annotated to explain and expand on James’s references and to briefly develop points of criticism. The editor has added a new, critical Introduction, an extended bibliography and a new, comprehensive index. William James is perhaps America’s favorite philosopher and his writings remain popular around the world. Yet he studied to be an M.D., taught anatomy and physiology at Harvard, and he came to international prominence with his magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology (1890). James represented America just as the U.S. arrived on the world stage. This critical edition examines James’s later philosophical work from the perspective of the scientific naturalism often prominent in the Principles. It also takes up developments in historical and contemporary sources of functional psychology—which James often inspired—up to and including reflections of the contemporary French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene. The aim is to place the evaluation of James on pragmatism and radical empiricism within the scientific perspective of contemporary work in the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of mind. James on “radical empiricism” and “pure experience” and “pragmatism” are particular topics of critical attention.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5314-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5315-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
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Edited Book
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Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist? No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two A World of Pure Experience No access Pages 15 - 34
Chapter Three The Thing and Its Relations No access Pages 35 - 46
Chapter Four How Two Minds Can Know One Thing No access Pages 47 - 52
Chapter Five The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience No access Pages 53 - 60
Chapter Six The Experience of Activity No access Pages 61 - 72
Chapter Seven The Essence of Humanism No access Pages 73 - 78
Chapter Eight La Notion de Conscience No access Pages 79 - 90
Chapter Nine Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic? No access Pages 91 - 94
Chapter Ten Mr. Pitkin’s Refutation of ‘Radical Empiricism’ No access Pages 95 - 96
Chapter Eleven Humanism and Truth Once More No access Pages 97 - 104
Chapter Twelve Absolutism and Empiricism No access Pages 105 - 110
