William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism -

William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism

H. G. Callaway (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-5314-7 (ISBN)
95,95 inkl. MwSt
This new critical edition is an examination of William James’s Essays in Radical Empiricism in light of the scientific naturalism prominent in James’s Principles of Psychology (1890) and the subsequent development of Darwinian, functional psychology and functionalism in psychology, the philosophy psychology and the philosophy of mind.
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.

H.G. Callaway is an independent scholar.

Preface

Introduction

William James, Functional Psychology, and Radical Empiricism

Chapter 1

Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist?

Chapter 2

A World of Pure Experience

Chapter 3

The Thing and its Relations

Chapter 4

How Two Minds Can Know One Thing

Chapter 5

The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience

Chapter 6

The Experience of Activity

Chapter 7

The Essence of Humanism

Chapter 8

La Notion de Conscience

Chapter 9

Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic?

Chapter 10

Mr. Pitkin’s Refutation of ‘Radical Empiricism’

Chapter 11

Humanism and Truth Once More

Chapter 12

Absolutism and Empiricism

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Philosophy Series
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 228 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 1-7936-5314-3 / 1793653143
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-5314-7 / 9781793653147
Zustand Neuware
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