Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James

Overview

Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from ten out of a collection of twelve reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University Library and the Harvard Department of Philosophy for supplemental use by his students. Perry replaced two essays from the original list with two others, one of which didn't exist at the earlier time.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153447285
Publisher:	Merkaba Press
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	196 KB

About the Author

Fredson Bowers is Linden Kent Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia.

Ignas K. Skrupskelis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Foreword


Introduction by John J. McDermott


Essays in Radical Empiricism


Does "Consciousness" Exist?


A World of Pure Experience


The Thing and Its Relations


How Two Minds Can Know One Thing


The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience


The Experience of Activity


The Essence of Humanism


La Notion de Conscience


Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic?


Mr. Pitkin's Refutation of 'Radical Empiricism'


A Reply to Mr. Pitkin


Humanism and Truth Once More


Absolutism and Empiricism


Controversy about Truth


Notes


A Note on the Editorial Method


The Text of Essays in Radical Empiricism


1. The History


2. The Documents


3. The Editorial Problem


Apparatus


Emendations


Textual Notes


Historical Collation


Word-Division


Appendixes


1. The Experience of Activity


2. Discussion Following "La Notion de Conscience"


3. "La Notion de Conscience": Translation


4. James and John E. Russell


General Index


Key to the Pagination of Edition

Editorial Reviews

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