Any particular recommendations from William James' "Essays in Radical Empiricism", aside from "World of Pure Experience"?
Other recommended works in the same spirit, or good adversarial works wrt WoPE are also appreciated.
Thanks in advance
@svateboje @distributedcog
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Replying to @neuropoetic
been a while, but certainly Does Consciousness Exist. past that, maybe Thing and its Relations, Place of Affectional Facts, and Experience of Activity?
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Replying to @svateboje
Thank you very much! Greatly appreciate your input
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Replying to @neuropoetic @svateboje
I read through all of James’s published works in 1999-2000, but I haven’t revisited any of them in any detail since...maybe I should!
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @svateboje
Well for what it's worth I'm absolutely enamored by A World of Pure Experience!
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Replying to @neuropoetic @svateboje
I’m sure it’s been written, but Buddhism is Radical Empiricism: “To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced”
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Seems to me Buddhism admits all sorts of things into its constructions that aren't directly experienced.
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Like for instance? This could be an interesting exchange with @distributedcog
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Replying to @cnuckles @evantthompson and
Definitely inferred entities as conventional existences, but it will also depend a lot on where in the Buddhist tradition we look! Once things blossom into metaphysical hypotheses in the Abhidharma tradition, the issue certainly gets complicated!
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You said "Buddhism," so I took you to be referring to the tradition in general. Where are you thinking we should look? I think the Nikāyas and Āgamas are metaphysical/interpretive too.
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Replying to @evantthompson @cnuckles and
I was just spouting off at the neurocrackpot...and while I agree that there are metaphysical commitments in the early strata of the tradition, I think there’s a pretty robust shift toward a metaphysics that goes beyond the phenomenology in the Abhidharma traditions
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @evantthompson and
I’m following folks like Collette Cox and more specifically Noa Ronkin here. But I read the claims about the skandhas as experiential, and likewise with the claims about the dhyānas, and even the cittas/caittas...but that’s a longer convo!
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