Skip to content

Essays in Radical Empiricism
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Essays in Radical Empiricism Paperback - 1996

by James, William; Perry, Ralph Barton [Preface]; Suckiel, Ellen Kappy [Introduction];

  • New
  • Paperback

Description

University of Nebraska Press, 1996-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
New
NZ$131.83
NZ$9.07 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 21 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from GridFreed LLC (California, United States)

Details

About GridFreed LLC California, United States

Biblio member since 2021
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

We sell primarily non-fiction, many new books, some collectible first editions and signed books. We operate 100% online and have been in business since 2005.

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from GridFreed LLC

From the rear cover

Essays in Radical Empiricism shows William James concerned with ultimate reality and moving toward a metaphysical system. The twelve essays originally appeared in journals between 1904 and 1906. James himself collected them to illustrate what he called "radical empiricism", but this volume was not published until 1912, two years after his death. Included are such seminal essays as "Does Consciousness Exist?" and "A World of Pure Experience". The distinguished scholar and biographer Ralph Barton Perry, who edited this volume, called the essays essential to an understanding of James writings. Radical empiricism takes us into a "world of pure experience". In the essays as introducer Ellen Kappy Suckiel notes, "James inquires into the metaphysically basic reality underlying the common-sense objects of our world. It is here that he defends his view that 'experience' is the sole and ultimate reality". The essays deal with the applications of this "pure" or "neutral" experience the general problem of relations, the role of feeling in experience, the nature of truth.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/01/1996, Page 215

About the author

Ellen Kappy Suckiel, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of The Pragmatic Philosophy of William James and Pragmatism and Religious Belief: A Study of the Philosophy of William James.