William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin / / Eugene Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Eugene,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE An Outline of the Problem --; CHAPTER TWO Consciousness: The Focus of Experimental Psychology at Harvard before 1890 --; CHAPTER THREE Consciousness and the Subconscious: The Conundrum of The Principles --; CHAPTER FOUR The Reality of Multiple States: Abnormal Psychology and Psychical Research --; CHAPTER FIVE Mystical Awakening: An Epistemology of the Ultimate --; CHAPTER SIX The Anti-Jamesean Movement --; CHAPTER SEVEN James's Rejoinder: A Critique of Experimentalism in Psychology --; CHAPTER EIGHT James's Final Statement to Psychologists --; Notes --; Annotated Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400822195; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400822195?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eugene Taylor.

At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. In addition to being one of the founders of pragmatism, however, he was also a leading psychologist and author of the seminal work, The Principles of Psychology (1890). While scholars argue that James withdrew from the study of psychology after 1890, Eugene Taylor demonstrates convincingly that James remained preeminently a psychologist until his death in 1910.Taylor details James's contributions to experimental psychopathology, psychical research, and the psychology of religion. Moreover, Taylor's work shows that out of his scientific study of consciousness, James formulated a sophisticated metaphysics of radical empiricism. In light of historical developments in psychology, as well as the current philosophic implications of the neuroscience revolution related to the biology of consciousness, Taylor argues that both the subject matter of James's investigations and his metaphysics of radical empiricism are just as important for psychology today as James believed they were in his own time.This book represents a major new contribution both to James scholarship and to the history of American psychology. Although philosophers have analyzed radical empiricism, this book is the first to trace the development of radical empiricism as a metaphysics addressed to psychologists. It is also the first to show James's involvement in depth-psychology and psychotherapeutics and to trace historical continuity between James's work on consciousness and subsequent developments in psychoanalysis, personality theory, and humanistic psychology.