ohmygod ok first off great writer great name great guy did you know he was a cowboy and also enjoyed the occasional lsd trip second off amazing in terms of philosophical argumentation, convincing as a hammer, last article felt out of place but totally would read again love u wj

Lack of conceptual rigor is no substitute for wit. I got side tracked towards the end and when I focused again he was talking about how the fact that the thermometer doesn’t indicate that it’s cold here and now doesn’t mean it’s not cold in the North Pole. And I thought enough with this shit

Peggior libro letto nel 2022. È tutto fatto male.
L’esposizione nel complesso risulta poco chiara ed inutilmente contorta.

Mettendo da parte il fatto che è un libro accademico, per gli addetti ai lavori, che potrebbe anche giustificarne in parte l’astrusità (dello scritto, non dei concetti), per il re

James in essay form can be more humorous than usual. Easy read compared to Kant!

hm. certainly a Whole Lot but a lot that is good

Just reading the lecture on the “compounding of consciousness” one of the simpler ideas in the book. With the simple example of hydrogen joining oxygen to form water and reflecting on the properties of the individual components, Williams proves the notion that 1+1 can equal 3. Net the essences of ea

According to William James, radical empiricism is the name for the most abstract inquiry into the nature of reason, and in this book he demonstrates just how far one can go into establishing the term for the nature of this discourse, without resorting to scientific language. Like C.G. Jung's book on

I like the first chapter quite a lot, in which he presents consciousness as a function, and not as an entity.