"What I seek to demonstrate is that James's integrated view is best understood as beginning with radical empiricism - as traditionally understood from the perspective of the posthumously collected Essays in Radical Empiricism - and including pragmatism. More importantly, however, James's world-view must also be taken to incorporate several crucial modifications to these more familiar views: namely, a modified and expanded notion of rationality on a spectrum between intimacy and foreignness, and a moderately panpsychist interpretation of reality that allows for the possibility of superhuman (or "supernatural") entities or activities. On my reading it is probably better to refer to James's overall view as "radical empiricism" rather than "pragmatism," but it is also crucial to take this radical empiricism to include several critical refinements to the views familiar from Essays in Radical Empiricism."
"William James and the Metaphysics of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought Book 5)" by David C. Lamberth: https://a.co/c1AJiQN
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