Essays in Radical Empiricism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays in Radical Empiricism, credited to William James, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James. William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from a collection of reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University for supplemental use by his students. (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays in Radical Empiricism
• Author credits: William James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 6:45:16

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• psychology

Track guide

1. 00 - Editor's Preface — 12:54
2. 01 - Does Consciousness Exist? — 50:23
3. 02 - A World of Pure Experience — 1:05:42
4. 03 - The Thing and its Relations — 37:51
5. 04 - How Two Minds Can Know One Thing — 16:25
6. 05 - The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience — 23:38
7. 06 - The Experience of Activity — 39:52
8. 07 - The Essence of Humanism — 17:09
9. 08 - The Notion of Consciousness (English) — 29:58
10. 09 - Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic? — 10:34
11. 10 - Mr Pitkin's Refutation — 3:42
12. 11 - Humanism and Truth Once More — 26:31
13. 12 - Absolutism and Empiricism — 18:15
14. 13 - Controversy About Truth — 24:37
15. 14 - La notion de conscience — 27:54

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