The Radical Empiricism Of William James

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
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Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486149295

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Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

The influential philosopher's preoccupation with ultimate reality and his turn toward a metaphysical system are the focus of Essays in Radical Empiricism. Originally published in journals between 1884 and 1906, these 12 essays were selected by William James to illustrate the doctrine he called "radical empiricism" — a concept that made him the center of a new philosophic approach. Proclaiming experience to be the ultimate reality, James explores the applications of experience to the problem of relations, the role of feeling in experience, and the nature of truth. He argues in favor of a pluralistic universe, denying that experience can be defined in terms of an absolute force determining the relationships between things and events. Relationships, regardless of whether they hold things together or apart, are as real as the things themselves — their functions are real, and there are no hidden factors responsible for life's harmonies and dissonances. Seminal essays in this collection include "Does Consciousness Exist?: "The Essence of Humanism," and "Absolutism and Empiricism." In addition, this edition features a new translation of "On the Notion of Consciousness" — the first English rendering of the essay, which was written in French. Indispensable to an understanding of the great philosopher's other works, this systematic and compact treatment functions equally well in and out of the classroom.

Author : William James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 129 pages
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Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732698615

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Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

Author : John Wild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Empiricism
ISBN : LCCN:68002714

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The Radical Empiricism of William James by John Wild Pdf

Author : Alexander Mugar Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199395699

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The Oxford Handbook of William James by Alexander Mugar Klein Pdf

"This Handbook provides a structured overview of William James's intellectual work. James was a pioneer of the "new" physiological psychology of the late nineteenth century. He was also a founder of the pragmatist movement in philosophy and made influential contributions to metaphysics and to the study of religion as well. This Handbook's chapters are organized either around major themes in James's writing or around his conversations with interlocutors"--

Author : John Daniel Wild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015023734091

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The Radical Empiricism of William James by John Daniel Wild Pdf

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442223059

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The Philosophy of William James by Donald A. Crosby Pdf

This book focuses on William James' philosophy as it relates to his conceptions of ordinary experience, the respective natures of self and the world, and the interrelations of these three things.

Author : Harry Heft
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135689582

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Ecological Psychology in Context by Harry Heft Pdf

In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J. Gibson's ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological psychology and analyses of sociocultural processes. A thesis of the book is that knowing is rooted in the direct experience of meaningful environmental objects and events present in individual-environment processes and at the level of collective, social settings. Ecological Psychology in Context: *traces the primary lineage of Gibson's ecological approach to William James's philosophy of radical empiricism; *illuminates how the work of James's student and Gibson's mentor, E.B. Holt, served as a catalyst for the development of Gibson's framework and as a bridge to James's work; *reveals how ecological psychology reciprocally can advance Jamesian studies by resolving some of the theoretical difficulties that kept James from fully realizing a realist philosophy; *broadens the scope of Gibson's framework by proposing a synthesis between it and the ecological program of Roger Barker, who discovered complex systems operating at the level of collective, social processes; *demonstrates ways in which the psychological domain can be extended to properties of the environment rendering its features meaningful, publicly accessible, and distributed across person-environment processes; and *shows how Gibson's work points the way toward overcoming the gap between experimental psychology and the humanities. Intended for scholars and students in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology, theoretical and historical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Author : David Lapoujade
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478007593

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William James by David Lapoujade Pdf

Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions through a Deleuzian framework, Lapoujade outlines how James's pragmatism and radical empiricism encompass the study of experience and the making of reality, and he reopens the speculative side of pragmatist thought and the role of experience in it. The book includes an extensive afterword by translator Thomas Lamarre, who illustrates how James's interventions are becoming increasingly central to the contemporary debates about materialist ontology, affect, and epistemology that strive to bridge the gaps among science studies, media studies, and religious studies.

Author : H. G. Callaway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793653154

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William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism by H. G. Callaway Pdf

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.

Author : Hunter Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802047343

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William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion by Hunter Brown Pdf

Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.

Author : William James
Publisher : HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9786256326187

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A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE by William James Pdf

Author : William James
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

‘Thoughts’ and ‘things’ are names for two sorts of object, which common sense will always find contrasted and will always practically oppose to each other. Philosophy, reflecting on the contrast, has varied in the past in her explanations of it, and may be expected to vary in the future. At first, ‘spirit and matter,’ ‘soul and body,’ stood for a pair of equipollent substances quite on a par in weight and interest. But one day Kant undermined the soul and brought in the transcendental ego, and ever since then the bipolar relation has been very much off its balance. The transcendental ego seems nowadays in rationalist quarters to stand for everything, in empiricist quarters for almost nothing. In the hands of such writers as Schuppe, Rehmke, Natorp, Münsterberg—at any rate in his earlier writings, Schubert-Soldern and others, the spiritual principle attenuates itself to a thoroughly ghostly condition, being only a name for the fact that the ‘content’ of experience is known. It loses personal form and activity—these passing over to the content—and becomes a bare Bewusstheit or Bewusstsein überhaupt, of which in its own right absolutely nothing can be said. I believe that ‘consciousness,’ when once it has evaporated to this estate of pure diaphaneity, is on the point of disappearing altogether. It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles. Those who still cling to it are clinging to a mere echo, the faint rumor left behind by the disappearing ‘soul’ upon the air of philosophy. During the past year, I have read a number of articles whose authors seemed just on the point of abandoning the notion of consciousness,[3] and substituting for it that of an absolute experience not due to two factors. But they were not quite radical enough, not quite daring enough in their negations. For twenty years past I have mistrusted ‘consciousness’ as an entity; for seven or eight years past I have suggested its non-existence to my students, and tried to give them its pragmatic equivalent in realities of experience. It seems to me that the hour is ripe for it to be openly and universally discarded.

Author : Eugene Taylor,Robert H. Wozniak
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 185506412X

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Pure Experience by Eugene Taylor,Robert H. Wozniak Pdf

The radical empiricism of William James was first formally presented in his seminal papers of 1904, "Does Consciousness Exist?" and "A World of Pure Experience". In James's view, pure experience was to serve as the source for psychology's primary data, and radical empiricism was to launch an effective critique of experimentalism in psychology, a critique from which the problem of experimentalism within science could be addressed more broadly. This collection of papers presents James's formal statements on radical empiricism and a representative sample of contemporary responses from psychologists and philosophers. With only a few exceptions, these responses indicate just how badly James was misread -- psychologists ignoring the heart of James's message and philosophers transforming James's metaphysics into something quite unintelligible to the emerging generation of experimental psychologists.

Author : John J. McDermott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307824790

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The Writings of William James by John J. McDermott Pdf

A comprehensive collection of writings by the legendary philosopher, whose sweeping body of work influenced our ideas about psychology, religion, free will, and pragmatism. In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing the importance of radical empiricism and placing into perspective the doctrines of pragmatism and the will to believe. The critical periods of James's life are highlighted to illuminate the development of his philosophical and psychological thought. The anthology features representative selections from The Principles of Psychology, The Will to Believe, and The Variety of Religious Experience in addition to the complete Essays in Radical Empiricism and A Pluralistic Universe. The original 1907 edition of Pragmatism is included, as well as classic selections from all of James's other major works. Of particular significance for James scholarship is the supplemented version of Ralph Barton Perry's Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James.

Author : David Lapoujade
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478007593

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William James by David Lapoujade Pdf

Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions through a Deleuzian framework, Lapoujade outlines how James's pragmatism and radical empiricism encompass the study of experience and the making of reality, and he reopens the speculative side of pragmatist thought and the role of experience in it. The book includes an extensive afterword by translator Thomas Lamarre, who illustrates how James's interventions are becoming increasingly central to the contemporary debates about materialist ontology, affect, and epistemology that strive to bridge the gaps among science studies, media studies, and religious studies.