Radical Empiricism
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A Radical Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine which focuses on the meaning, values and intentionality that arise from physical phenomena.
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- See: Essays in Radical Empiricism, Scientism, Subjectivism.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radical_empiricism Retrieved:2020-8-8.
- Radical empiricism is a philosophical doctrine put forth by William James. It asserts that experience includes both particulars and relations between those particulars, and that therefore both deserve a place in our explanations. In concrete terms: any philosophical worldview is flawed if it stops at the physical level and fails to explain how meaning, values and intentionality can arise from that. [1]
- ↑ William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, 1912, Essay II § 1.