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A reclamation of experience as the foremost concept in the work of
William James, and a powerful argument for the continuing
importance of his philosophy. How does one deploy experience
without succumbing to a foundationalist epistemology or an account
of the subject rooted in immediately given objects of
consciousness? In the wake of the so-called linguistic turn of the
twentieth century, this is a question anyone thinking
philosophically about experience must ask. Alexis Dianda answers
through a reading of the pragmatic tradition, culminating in a
defense of the role of experience in William James’s thought.
Dianda argues that by reconstructing James’s philosophical
project, we can locate a model of experience that not only avoids
what Wilfrid Sellars called “the myth of the given” but also
enriches pragmatism broadly. First, Dianda identifies the
motivations for and limitations of linguistic nominalism, insisting
that critics of experience focus too narrowly on justification and
epistemic practices. Then, by emphasizing how James’s concept of
experience stresses the lived, affective, and nondiscursive, the
argument holds that a more robust notion of experience is necessary
to reflect not just how we know but how we act. The Varieties of
Experience provides a novel reconstruction of the relationship
between psychology, moral thought, epistemology, and religion in
James’s work, demonstrating its usefulness in tackling issues
such as the relevance of perception to knowledge and the
possibility of moral change. Against the tide of neopragmatic
philosophers such as Richard Rorty and Robert Brandom, who argue
that a return to experience must entail appeals to foundationalism
or representationalism, Dianda’s intervention rethinks not only
the value and role of experience but also the aims and resources of
pragmatic philosophy today.
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