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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