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The Works of William James: Essays in Radical Empiricism: Essays in Radical Empiricism

The Works of William James: Essays in Radical Empiricism: Essays in Radical Empiricism

Skrupskelis, Ignas K.
James, William
Bowers, Fredson

Hardcover

Series: Works of William James, Book 5

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0674267176
ISBN13: 9780674267176
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 1 1976
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
A pioneer in early studies of the human mind and founder of that peculiarly American philosophy called Pragmatism, William James remains America's most widely read philosopher. Generations of students have been drawn to his lucid presentations of philosophical problems. His works, now being made available for the first time in a definitive edition, have a permanent place in American letters and a continuing influence in philosophy and psychology. The essays gathered in the posthumously published Essays in Radical Empiricism formulate ideas that had brewed in James's mind for thirty years as he sought a way out of the philosophical dilemmas generated by the new psychology of the late nineteenth century. They constitute the explanatory core of his doctrine of radical empiricism, a doctrine that charts his course between the absolute idealism he could not accept and, at the other extreme, the law of associationism, which reduces knowledge to sheer contiguity of ideas. In his introduction John J. McDermott describes the historical background and the genesis of James's theory and considers the objections raised by its opponents.

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