Abstract
Abstract When pressed for a “brief nickname” to describe his philosophy, William James usually offered “radical empiricism.” In 1896 he declared that a radical empiricist is anyone who believes that pluralism is the “permanent form of the world”: “For him the crudity of experience remains an eternal element thereof” (Will 6). The radical empiricist seeks to preserve this crudity from the assaults of “professionalism and pedantry” with their monistic, absolutist doctrines intolerant of what James calls the “ever not quite” (qtd. Perry 2: 630; Will 6). In this battle James gained crucial support from Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution (1907): “We are fighting the same fight,” James excitedly wrote him.
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