Essays in Radical Empiricism - Couverture souple

James, Dr William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1605205060 ISBN 13 : 9781605205069

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2008

Synopsis

'Pure experience' is the name which I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. Only new-born babies, or men in semi-coma from sleep, drugs, illnesses, or blows, may be assumed to have an experience pure in the literal sense of a that which is not yet any definite what, tho' ready to be all sorts of whats; full both of oneness and of manyness, but in respects that don't appear; changing throughout; yet so confusedly that its phases interpenetrate and no points, either of distinction or of identity, can be caught. --from Chapter III: "The Thing and Its Relations" What is the difference--if any--between consciousness and experience? What is the relationship between the knower and the known? Why do common sense and philosophy always seem to be at odds? American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking researcher at Harvard University, author of such works as Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), and one of the most influential academics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here, in a series of essays first published in book form in 1912, James explores these questions as he discusses: - does consciousness exist? - radical empiricism - conjunctive 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 - humanism and truth - absolutism and empiricism - and more.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Essays in Radical Empiricism (ERE) 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. Because ERE is a collection of essays written over a period of time, and ultimately not selected or collated by their author, it is not a systematic exposition of his thought[1] even though Perry suggests otherwise in his preface. This circumstance, in addition to the evolution of James own philosophic stance, has contributed to a wide variance in understanding, misunderstanding, and critical opinion of radical empiricism.

Biographie de l'auteur

William James

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1605205060
• ISBN 13: 9781605205069
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne