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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy

• Full title: Essays in Radical Empiricism
• Author: William James
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780674267176
• ISBN: 0674267176
• ID: 04635893
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 744 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 28 mm

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