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Is it important to read his work on pragmatism before his papers on consciousness? Or vice versa?

How easily can we connect his theory of mind to phenomenology?

>> No.22083633

>>22083614
this bloke have any relation to john williams?

>> No.22083653

>>22083614
Read Varieties of Religious Experience

>> No.22083707

>>22083653
This is the only one I’ve read. It was cool as a broad survey of different religious experiences. But it really reaches its nadir when he starts invoking the “science of psychology” and presenting this dated and unworkable perspective. Not sure I’m interested in reading an entire book devoted to that.

>> No.22083793

>>22083707
You could start with him and progress through the field as it developed over timd, you know like how you would in a course teaching this stuff.

>> No.22084643

>>22083707
>>22083653
Varieties is ok for case studies tho psych reduction is gay but really shines as pure philosopher

>> No.22084649

>>22084643
That is, read his other works, OP
>>22083614
His approach is indeed quite amenable to phenomenology

>> No.22084674

>>22083614
Don't know who he is but he looks awesome. I'd love to dress like that.

>> No.22084690

>>22083707
elab

>> No.22085471

>>22083614
You don’t need to read his pragmatic worms to understand essays on radical empiricism. In fact you don’t need to read his pragmatic works at all, just read Peirce’s how to make our ideas clear.

>> No.22085477

>>22083707
You mean the first couple introductory bits where he specifically brackets OUT psychological reductionism?

His actual textbook on psychology designed for all readers including medical psychologists includes arguments for panpsychism and the brain as a receiving antenna of higher levels of soul

>> No.22085556

>>22085477
He has weird psychological pet theories. Ya. He is reductive but also believes in enchanted universe. Bit nondual really. Like Whitehead, no subject/object -- pure experience as field of consciousness and body.