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Radical Empiricists

Author : Helen Thaventhiran
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191061700
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Radical Empiricists written by Helen Thaventhiran and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Empiricists presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century, against the backdrop of the modernist crisis of meaning. Our received idea of modernist criticism is that its novelty lay in being very empirical: critics believed in looking closely at words on the page. Such close reading has since been easy to ridicule but my book seeks to consider whether this is fair: have we, in the rush either to dismiss, or even to defend, the idea of close reading, often failed to look closely at what it involves in practice? Against this oversight, Radical Empiricists turns close reading back on itself, proposing some innovative readings of the prose of five major modernist poet-critics: I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, R.P. Blackmur, and Marianne Moore. The book is divided into two parts, preceded by an introduction that explores what these five writers share: a radical self-consciousness about the key critical concept, 'meaning'. Part I, 'How to read', considers the prose techniques of Eliot, Richards and Empson as they push at the boundaries of verbal analysis in other disciplines: experimental psychology and anthropology, classical commentary and textual criticism. Part II introduces Blackmur and Moore, alongside Empson, and takes a more polemical look at how their critical styles defy various modernist orthodoxies about 'how not to read' (for example, that paraphrase always destroys poetic meaning). Many of these orthodoxies remain current: re-visiting their history, and attending to the rich detail of critical prose styles, can allow us to lift some old, unreflective constraints on our ways of knowing about poems.

Essays in Radical Empiricism [and] A Pluralistic Universe

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism [and] A Pluralistic Universe written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and Radical Empiricism

Author : Nancy K. Frankenberry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403224
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Radical Empiricism written by Nancy K. Frankenberry and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of "revisionary theism," to caricatures of philosophy as "conversation," and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

In Defense of Radical Empiricism

Author : Roderick Firth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847687664
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Radical Empiricism written by Roderick Firth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roderick Firth's writings on epistemology amount to an exceptionally careful and cogent defense of an account of perceptual knowledge in the tradition Firth called "radical empiricism". This important book collects all of Firth's major works on epistemology; it also contains his only publication in ethics, the extremely influential essay on "Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer". In addition, the book includes a number of important previously unpublished essays. Together, these writings constitute the most finished and compelling version of traditional empiricist epistemology. This book will be of value to students and scholars of epistemology, phenomenalism, and ethics.

William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : H. G. Callaway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793653151
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism written by H. G. Callaway and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.G. Callaway’s critical edition of William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism evaluates this classic work of American philosophy and the pragmatist tradition partly on the basis of the functional psychology of James's magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology. The edition also brings in later, Darwinian-functionalist, American psychology—which James did much to inspire—and contemporary developments in functional, cognitive psychology and neuroscience. James’s own text has been annotated throughout to render his references and theoretical concerns explicit and to briefly indicate points of criticism. The edition features an expanded bibliography that includes both historical and contemporary sources, as well as a new, comprehensive index. The chief arguments of the edition center on criticism of James's claims for "radical empiricism," his doctrine of "pure experience," and the doubtful role as evidence James attributed to stand-alone introspection and Jamesian “retrospection.” Enlisting results from the logic of relations, contemporary empiricism, historical and contemporary developments in cognitive psychology, and experimental neuroscience, Callaway argues for the importance of James on functional relations—to be interpreted in the manner of the scientific naturalism prominent in The Principles of Psychology. Too often, James’s late philosophical views have overshadowed the accomplishments of his earlier work in psychology. Overall, this new edition indicates the scientific virtues of functionalism in cognitive psychology and shows the relevance of James’s functional psychology to contemporary cognitive theory.

The Philosophy of William James

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442223049
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of William James written by Donald A. Crosby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus in this book is on the philosophy of William James as it relates to his conceptions of "pure" and ordinary experience, the respective natures of self and world, the interrelations of experience, self, and world, the awareness of a common world by two or more selves, and the extent to which and means by which those selves can gain access to one another's personal consciousness. The book provides explications and critical interpretations of these themes in James's philosophy and, when appropriate, makes substantive suggestions for their clarification and improvement. It defends the thesis that these themes offer a promising basis for building a credible philosophy of mind and its relations to the world, including its relations to other minds in the world. It considers at length two recent objections to empiricism as an epistemological program and defends empiricism in general and James's brand of empiricism in particular (what he called radical empiricism) against these objections. Finally, it argues the need for and sketches some outlines for a greatly expanded, enriched, and multi-dimensional radical materialism and shows why and how the development of such a materialistic metaphysics can be integrated with James's philosophy of radical empiricism.

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : William James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537445755
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Radical Empiricism - William James - Essays in Radical Empiricism 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. THE present volume is an attempt to carry out a plan which William James is known to have formed several years before his death. In 1907 he collected reprints in an envelope which he inscribed with the title 'Essays in Radical Empiricism'; and he also had duplicate sets of these reprints bound, under the same title, and deposited for the use of students in the general Harvard Library, and in the Philosophical Library in Emerson Hall. Two years later Professor James published The Meaning of Truth and A Pluralistic Universe, and inserted in these volumes several of the articles which he had intended to use in the 'Essays in Radical Empiricism.' Whether he would nevertheless have carried out his original plan, had he lived, cannot be certainly known. Several facts, however, stand out very clearly. In the first place, the articles included in the original plan but omitted from his later volumes are indispensable to the understanding of his other writings.

Radical Empiricists

Author : Helen Thaventhiran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198713428
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Radical Empiricists written by Helen Thaventhiran and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Empiricists presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century, against the backdrop of the modernist crisis of meaning. Our received idea of modernist criticism is that its novelty lay in being very empirical: critics believed in looking closely at words on the page. Such close reading has since been easy to ridicule, but this book seeks to consider whether this is fair: have we, in the rush either to dismiss, or even to defend, the idea of close reading, often failed to look closely at what it involves in practice? Against this oversight, Radical Empiricists turns close reading back on itself, proposing some innovative readings of the prose of five major modernist poet-critics: I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, R.P. Blackmur, and Marianne Moore. The book is divided into two parts, preceded by an introduction that explores what these five writers share: a radical self-consciousness about the key critical concept, "meaning." Part I, "How to read," considers the prose techniques of Eliot, Richards, and Empson as they push at the boundaries of verbal analysis in other disciplines: experimental psychology and anthropology, classical commentary, and textual criticism. Part II introduces Blackmur and Moore, alongside Empson, and takes a more polemical look at how their critical styles defy various modernist orthodoxies about "how not to read" (for example, that paraphrase always destroys poetic meaning). Many of these orthodoxies remain current: re-visiting their history, and attending to the rich detail of critical prose styles, can allow us to lift some old, unreflective constraints on our ways of knowing about poems.

The Radical Empiricism of William James

Author : John Daniel Wild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Empiricism of William James written by John Daniel Wild and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : William James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523498567
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Radical Empiricism 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 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 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.

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : William James
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781489588579
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is an attempt to carry out a plan which William James is known to have formed several years before his death. In 1907 he collected reprints in an envelope which he inscribed with the title 'Essays in Radical Empiricism'; and he also had duplicate sets of these reprints bound, under the same title, and deposited for the use of students in the general Harvard Library, and in the Philosophical Library in Emerson Hall.

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : William James
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Religious Empiricism

Author : William Dean
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887062810
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book American Religious Empiricism written by William Dean and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbersup to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. br>Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Author : Ralph Barton Perry
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377504339
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by Ralph Barton Perry and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion

Author : Hunter Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802047342
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion written by Hunter Brown and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.

Essays in Radical Empiricism [and] A Pluralistic Universe

Author : William James
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780844612461
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism [and] A Pluralistic Universe written by William James and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1967 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quantum of Explanation

Author : Randall E. Auxier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351792474
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Quantum of Explanation written by Randall E. Auxier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.