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Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James (1842–1910)

42 chapters, about 48,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. EDITOR'S PREFACE 1,500 words
2. DOES 'CONSCIOUSNESS' EXIST?[2] 500 words
3. I 800 words
4. II 1,100 words
5. III 1,800 words
6. V 200 words
7. VI 1,100 words
8. VII 300 words
9. VIII 300 words
10. A WORLD OF PURE EXPERIENCE[25] 400 words
11. I. RADICAL EMPIRICISM 500 words
12. II. CONJUNCTIVE RELATIONS 1,400 words
13. III. THE COGNITIVE RELATION 1,600 words
14. IV. SUBSTITUTION 800 words
15. V. WHAT OBJECTIVE REFERENCE IS. 1,600 words
16. VI. THE CONTERMINOUSNESS OF DIFFERENT MINDS[37] 1,900 words
17. VII. CONCLUSION 900 words
18. THE THING AND ITS RELATIONS[43] 200 words
19. I 400 words
20. II 800 words
21. III 1,000 words
22. IV 400 words
23. V 1,100 words
24. VI 800 words
25. HOW TWO MINDS CAN KNOW ONE THING[68] 400 words
26. I 500 words
27. II 200 words
28. III 500 words
29. IV 400 words
30. V 2,800 words
31. BRETHREN OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: 5,500 words
32. FOOTNOTES: 900 words
33. THE ESSENCE OF HUMANISM[105] 400 words
34. I 400 words
35. II 500 words
36. III 600 words
37. IV 400 words
38. LA NOTION DE CONSCIENCE[116] 4,500 words
39. IS RADICAL EMPIRICISM SOLIPSISTIC?[119] 1,100 words
40. MR. PITKIN'S REFUTATION OF 'RADICAL EMPIRICISM'[122] 300 words
41. HUMANISM AND TRUTH ONCE MORE.[129] 3,700 words
42. ABSOLUTISM AND EMPIRICISM[140] 2,700 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ambiguity
• Awareness
• Conformity
• Consciousness
• Empiricism
• Essay
• Extension (metaphysics)
• Humanism
• Mental state
• Relation (mathematics)

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